Re: libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

[Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

Andrew Haley writes:
 > Andrew Haley writes:
 >  > 
 >  >  > But, I accept that something needs to be done if we really want to
 >  >  > support MMU-less systems. Why wouldn't overloading operator "->"
 >  >  > for Java types work?
 >  > 
 >  > I don't think so, because a C++ pointer to a type is not part of the
 >  > type.
 > 
 > Whoa, hold on now Andrew: we can't define a member function to do it,
 > but maybe we could get gcjh to define operator-> for each class.

And then I remembered why not:

`my_struct& operator*(my_struct*)' must have an argument of class or
   enumerated type
my_struct& operator->(my_struct*)' must be a nonstatic member 
   function

That's the problem.  I'll think some more.

Andrew.