Re: Question on java.lang.Thread and "final static int" constants

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Augart <address@hidden> writes:

Steven> So, for the purposes of GNU Classpath's AWT code
Steven> (--portable-native-sync), is it reasonable to assume that they are,
Steven> indeed, 1, 5, and 10, or should the implementation check the values at
Steven> run time and cache the results?  Since the Java language spec
Steven> expicitly allows the java source-to-byte-code compiler to inline the
Steven> values of static final constants, presumably the values can never
Steven> change in the future

Yeah, in theory the values can't change.  In practice, Sun has broken
this once or twice in the past, though honestly I doubt they would
bother changing these particular values.

I'd say in a case like this you can do whatever you like, provided the
result is documented.

Tom