Re: RFC: Tell do_allocate_static_fields which fields to allocate

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > This is a better patch.
 > >
 > > It mimics the technique used when allocating an interpreted class.
 > > It's all rather complicated, but that's hard to avoid as long as we
 > > want to continue to support the "old" BC-ABI.
 > >   
 > 
 > Instead of duplicating it, couldn't this code actually be shared with 
 > the interpreter? It looks to me that this could be done by making 
 > _Jv_InterpClass a specialization of _Jv_IndirectClass (with the 
 > field_initializers field in _Jv_IndirectClass), and moving 
 > do_allocate_static_fields to link.cc to make it more generic.

The field_initializers field has a different type, and the way it is
used is semantically different AFAICS.

Andrew.