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Re: RawData ?
Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx dot de> writes:
> Am Sonntag, 6. April 2003 20:08 schrieb Tom Tromey:
> > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx dot de> writes:
> >
> > Michael> Now that classpath HEAD has gnu.classpath.RawData and GCJ
> > has Michael> gnu.gcj.RawData what is the preferred name this class
> > should have ?
> >
> > Michael> Should we remove gnu.gcj.RawData in gcj and merge
> > Michael> gnu.classpath.RawData ?
> >
> > Right now I don't see a reason to. I think the Classpath RawData
> > is only used in one place. That is Class, which we will only be
> > able to partially merge anyway (and our implementation can't have
> > any fields visible to Java anyway, since that makes the compiler
> > crash).
> >
> > If we need to merge a class that uses this, we can just tweak the
> > import. If that gets too burdensome, we can consider a change.
> >
> > What do you think of that?
>
> Eeek, I already merged gnu.java.nio stuff a little bit which uses
> gnu.gcj.RawData. Thats why I wrote the mail. Currently the libgcj
> version uses gnu.gcj.RawData and the classpath version uses
> gnu.classpath.RawData. Execept the copyright statement and package
> name both java files are identical. Thats why I thought they could be
> merged.
I would have kept the gnu.gcj package name but it didn't seem right to
do so in the Classpath tree.
Brian
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