Re: FUBAR in java.io.PrintWriter.h due to bridge methods

[Robert Schuster <theBohemian at gmx dot net>]

Hi.

I remember that there was a discussion months ago[0] about adding the 
return type to the method's signature. Doing so was postponed because at 
the time it was discussed an ABI-change was not possible.

Regards
Robert

[0] - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2005-08/msg00058.html

Andrew Haley schrieb:
> g++ says:
>
> /home/aph/gcc/trunk/libjava/java/io/PrintWriter.h:63: error: 'virtual java::io::Writer* java::io::PrintWriter::target$append(java::lang::CharSequence*, jint, jint)' cannot be overloaded
> /home/aph/gcc/trunk/libjava/java/io/PrintWriter.h:57: error: with 'virtual java::io::PrintWriter* java::io::PrintWriter::target$append(java::lang::CharSequence*, jint, jint)'
>
> and it's right:
>
>   virtual ::java::io::PrintWriter * target$append(::java::lang::CharSequence *, jint, jint);
>   ...
>   virtual ::java::io::Writer * target$append(::java::lang::CharSequence *, jint, jint);
>
> there is no disambiguation between these two methods.  Suggestions?
>
> Andrew.