Re: Patch: Implement Class.getSigners

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@mckinlay.net.nz> writes:

Tom> I'd really like it if we got rid of the requirement to add a new
Tom> clause to the marker every time we add a field to Class.  Forgetting
Tom> this has caused bugs for us before.

Bryce> Yeah. I guess we'll have to come up with something to handle the
Bryce> marking if we're going to put class fields into the class objects for
Bryce> the new ABI. Its pretty ugly at the moment with all the special cases
Bryce> in there.

Since I added the "signers" field to Class, we can no longer compile
Classpath to bytecode, as the Classpath Class has its own "signers"
field.

It would be nice if this didn't happen.  I can't help thinking this is
somehow related to the above.  E.g., if we declared all our fields in
our Class.java, we could generate a mark descriptor for Class just
like we do for everything else, and we wouldn't have problems with
other implementations of Class (at least, hopefully, when generating
bytecode -- I think it is ok if we run into problems when generating
object code).

Meanwhile I suppose an ugly workaround would be to rename the
"signers" field in one place or the other.  Ugh.

Tom