Re: namespace namespace

[Sam Ruby <rubys at intertwingly dot net>]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Sam Ruby wrote:
> > Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Chris Burdess<dog@bluezoo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Some genius (?) has a namespace called "namespace" :-)
> > > > That would be Sun. And in Java "namespace" is not a keyword so it's a
> > > > perfectly legal package name.
> > namespace also happens to be the name of a concept in XML...
> >
> > > > > I think you'll have to edit the header file by hand.
> > To what?  Specifically, what should namespace "namespace" be mapped to?
>
>    namespace$
>
> > It is beginning to appear to me that gcj/g++ will do name mangling of
> > Java packages without regard to C++ reserved words, resulting in entry
> > points that can't conveniently be referenced in C++ using CNI.
>
> That's right.  It should be fairly easy to fix this, though.

Just so that I'm clear: what you are saying is that *both* gcj/g++ and 
gcjh need to be fixed.

I believe that doing such, while necessary, would break the binary 
interface: in particular code which is compiled today to call into JAXP 
would not work with new versions of JAXP that are compiled with a 
version of gcj/g++ which has this fix.

Is that OK?

> > Where can I find the "old" gcjh?  The current code is in Java, which
> > presumably does *not* have the mapping:
> >
> > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/classpath/tools/gnu/classpath/tools/javah/?root=classpath
>
> But this is easily fixable, as I pointed out in my previous massage.
>
> The old gcjh is very out of date.  I'd just fix the current code.

Is that "I'd" or "I'll" :-)

Is there something more I can provide?  Will gcj/g++ also be fixed?

> Andrew.

- Sam Ruby