Re: Patch: java class registration via .jcr section, take 2

[Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>]

On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 green@peach.cygnus.co.uk wrote:
> Thanks for catching those things Richard.  They're fixed in this patch.
> Alex has approved the minor java bits.

FWIW I think this is a great idea.  Two comments related to this patch:

1) Consider marking the class objects .protected so they can't be
overridden.  This also prevents expensive symbol lookups at load time.

2) If a hash value could be stored in JCR_SECTION along with the class
pointer, we could possibly avoid referencing class data at startup.  That
may only be a win for static linking though, and I'm not sure the
size tradeoff is worthwhile.

> +   The preferred mechanism is through the .jcr section, which contain
> +   a list of pointers to classes which get registered during
> +   constructor invoction time.  The fallback mechanism is to generate
                  ^^^^^^^^^
Typo.

Jeff