Re: Where does GcjRaw come from?defined?

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

Per Bothner wrote:

> Tom Tromey wrote:
>
>> Per> For that matter, perhaps we shoudl just use (void*) in CNI
>> Per> instead of RawData?
>>
>> Where do you mean?
>
>
> I just meant that since RawData is the Java convention/version of
> (void*), 


Theres a little more to it than that. A RawData is actually ignored by 
the GC (ie not scanned during mark phase), so it really means "pointer 
sized peice of data which will not be a pointer to something allocated 
by the GC", except in special circumstances where you want a hidden 
pointer. Since its usually much more convenient to use the GC allocator 
when associating native data with a Java class, RawData is not 
appropriate and you have to instead use java.lang.Object. Perhaps we 
should have another type of RawData which is not ignore by the GC.

regards

Bryce.