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Re: FYI: Linker & Verifier fixes (really GC mark procedures)

David Daney writes:
 > 
 > Does it really change the ABI in a bad way?  Couldn't we just hack up 
 > javah to layout the classes the new way.  There is no guarantee of C++ 
 > ABI stability across versions is there?

That's right, there isn't.

 > And for the BC ABI isn't the class layed out at runtime?

Not for class Class, no: that's still fixed.  That is the point of
what I'll be doing as soon as if fix this damn bug I'm working on...

Andrew.
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