Re: JNI in GCJ 3.2 for Win32

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at email dot byu dot edu>]

I may be jumping in midstream here, but a quick comment may help. 
According to JVMS 4.10, no Java method compatible with current VMs will 
ever have more than 256 slots passed as parameters (1K bytes), where 
longs and doubles count as two slots.  So using a short for the number 
of argument bytes should work...

Then again, for JDK 1.5, Sun is tossing around the idea of enhancing the 
.class file format to get rid of many of the size limitations that exist 
in the current format, and argument parameter count may be one of those 
enlarged limits.  We'll just have to see when JDK 1.5 comes out (next 
year, maybe?).

Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> 1. I used unsigned short simply because I didn't expect native
>    functions to take more than 65536 bytes as arguments. Maybe
>    I should use normal integers instead.
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