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Re: patch to bring java vtables closer to g++ abi conformance

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

Daniel> I still don't understand why runtime vtable's are really
Daniel> necessary, but I don't know anything about the GCJ runtime at
Daniel> all.

All array classes are created at runtime.  This is really the simplest
model for Java.

Also, we can load new classes at runtime from Java .class (bytecode)
files.  In this situation the entire class, including the vtable, is
constructed at runtime.

Tom
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