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Re: V3 ABI
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Subject: Re: V3 ABI
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 08 Dec 2000 00:30:07 -0700
- Cc: "'Bryce McKinlay'" <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>, Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>, apbianco at cygnus dot com, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <140D21516EC2D3119EE700902787664401E3A796@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
Hans> If I understand this correctly, I think there's another issue
Hans> with the GC, though this one's very minor. Presumably
Hans> interpreter generated vtables will be allocated as collectable
Hans> objects, and referenced only by an interior pointer at a known
Hans> offset from the start of the object?
Yeah. However, we could keep a pointer to the real vtable start in
the Class object if that would make the GC more efficient. This would
require a small change to gcj and a small change to the runtime.
Tom