Re: String class: hack for ORP 1.0.9

[Archie Cobbs]

Simon Kitching wrote:
>   public char[] toCharArray()
>   {
>     // XXX ORP 1.0.9 crashes on (char[]) clone() during bootstrap, so we
>     // omit this optimization for now.
>     // if (count == value.length)
>     //   return (char[]) value.clone();
>     char[] copy = new char[count];
>     VMSystem.arraycopy(value, offset, copy, 0, count);
>     return copy;
>   }
>
> I just wondered if it was time to remove this hack...

Sounds good to me... and in any case, ORP should be doing it's
own disoptimization for VM-specific issues like this rather than
forcing it on all Classpath users.

-Archie

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