Re: More questions about _GLOBAL

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>]

Adam Megacz wrote:

>What would really help me, and wouldn't have much design impact on
>gcj, is if there were a switch to create one __GLOBAL_foo per class,
>not one per compilation unit. It would be even cooler if this
>__GLOBAL_foo was named deterministically (right now the name seems to
>be the mangling of a randomly chosen method). Since there would be a
>1:1 mapping from classes to GLOBALs, the name could just be
>__GLOBAL_<mangled-class-name>.
>
>Is this an easy change or a hard one?  Would anybody be kind enough to
>point me at the right part of gcc and give me a few hints? I feel
>pretty comfortable screwing with libgcj, but I've never tried to
>modify gcc before.
>

It shouldn't be too hard to change. You want to look at 
emit_register_classes() in gcc/java/class.c.

regards

Bryce.