Reenabling Ada by default

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Sun Sep 12 17:48:00 GMT 2004


>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

Florian> * Per Bothner:
Per> You might also look at the GCJ way of implementing Java interfaces.
Per> An object reference is a plain pointer, and there are not extra
Per> per-object "vobject" fields as in C++.  Instead we use a kind of
Per> double dispatch using initialization-time-computed indexin, which
Per> yields constant-time dispatch.

Florian> Can you provide a pointer to a short, high-level documentation of this
Florian> approach?

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q3/msg00377.html

Tom



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