Re: compilation failure and compilation error messages

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Nic" == Nic Ferrier <nferrier at tapsellferrier dot co dot uk> writes:

Nic> Trouble is GCJ looks quite broken from the pov of calling super
Nic> constructors.

That doesn't immediately ring a bell for me.  AFAIK we do ok here.

Nic> It would be really helpfull if someone could explain what the
Nic> mnemonics are for the types, eg: VIJZ

Nic> If someone were to tell me (or point me to where it's defined in
Nic> the source) I'll write a page in the manual on it.

I think these are documented in the Java VM Specification; they come
from the .class representation.

>From libjava/prims.cc:

  /* Initialize built-in classes to represent primitive TYPEs. */
  _Jv_InitPrimClass (&_Jv_byteClass,    "byte",    'B', 1, &_Jv_byteVTable);
  _Jv_InitPrimClass (&_Jv_shortClass,   "short",   'S', 2, &_Jv_shortVTable);
  _Jv_InitPrimClass (&_Jv_intClass,     "int",     'I', 4, &_Jv_intVTable);
  _Jv_InitPrimClass (&_Jv_longClass,    "long",    'J', 8, &_Jv_longVTable);
  _Jv_InitPrimClass (&_Jv_booleanClass, "boolean", 'Z', 1, &_Jv_booleanVTable);
  _Jv_InitPrimClass (&_Jv_charClass,    "char",    'C', 2, &_Jv_charVTable);
  _Jv_InitPrimClass (&_Jv_floatClass,   "float",   'F', 4, &_Jv_floatVTable);
  _Jv_InitPrimClass (&_Jv_doubleClass,  "double",  'D', 8, &_Jv_doubleVTable);
  _Jv_InitPrimClass (&_Jv_voidClass,    "void",    'V', 0, &_Jv_voidVTable);


Tom