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Re: invokespecial on abstract method
Jeff Sturm writes:
>
> ant.jar is a fine example. No user can reasonably expect to have all the
> external classes referenced by ant.jar on their system. Some of them are
> proprietary and not freely available.
>
> > In order to compile and run these .jars, GCJ needs
> > to be able to defer the linkage until actual use, as per the JLS spec -
> > hence one of the reasons for the BC-ABI.
>
> I know this has been discussed before but I'll chime in once again to say
> I can't agree more.
Well, I think there's a fallacy here. It's not as if the gcj
developers have to decide which model to support -- we can support
both.
Andrew.