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

[Andrew Haley]

Nathanael Nerode writes:
 > >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;

Yes it is; the Java VM requires IEEE-754.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/Concepts.doc.html#33377

Andrew.