Re: Patch: merge several Number classes with Classpath

[Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:23:29PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> +
> +    /** 
> +     * Helper for java.lang.Integer, Byte, etc. to get the TYPE class
> +     * at initialization time.  If there are multiple classloaders, this
> +     * method may be called once per ClassLoader per type.
> +     *
> +     * @param type name of the primitive type; i.e. "int", "byte", etc.
> +     * @return a "bogus" class representing the primitive type.
> +     */
> +  static final Class getPrimitiveClass(String type)
> +  {
> +    if ("int".equals (type))
> +      return int.class;
> +    else if ("long".equals (type))
> +      return int.class;
> +    else if ("boolean".equals (type))
> +      return int.class;
> +    else if ("short".equals (type))
> +      return int.class;
> +    else if ("char".equals (type))
> +      return int.class;
> +    else if ("byte".equals (type))
> +      return int.class;
> +    else if ("float".equals (type))
> +      return int.class;
> +    else if ("double".equals (type))
> +      return int.class;
> +    else if ("void".equals (type))
> +      return int.class;
> +    return null;
> +  }

Note that you always return int.class.

Cheers,

Mark

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