[Bug libgcj/24616] linking BC-compiled classes: NoClassDefFoundErrors should be deferred

[thebohemian at gmx dot net]

------- Comment #4 from thebohemian at gmx dot net  2005-11-05 14:57 -------
By further inspecting the problem I got the impression that gcj's approach of
linking is flawed. As I understand it gcj does linking-on-initialization but
for the java language, being built-around the idea of late binding, it would be
better if gcj does the linking step when a particular entity (field, method) is
used for the first time.

That could mean that we should fill in the atables with the address to a
certain linkMe() function which then replaces itself if this succeeds or throws
an Error (NoClassDefFoundError, NoSuchMethodError or NoSuchFieldError).

Comments?


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24616