Trying to merge java.lang.Float, java.lang.Double with Classpath -- help wanted

[Nathanael Nerode]

>They are only GCJ-specific because they use CNI. There is nothing that 
>is specific to any given VM implementation, ie a JNI implementation in 
>classpath should work anywhere.

They depend on the bit encoding of doubles and floats.  This is not 
specified on the Java Virtual Machine specification; accordingly, it is 
specific to VM implementation.  Admittedly, in practice they may usually 
be represented in one consistent way, but they don't have to be.

>This is quite different from things 
>like Thread and Object which may be very different in the way they are 
>implemented internally by the VM.
 
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