FYI: Patch: java.net.InetAddress

[Bryce McKinlay]

On Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003, at 10:27 Pacific/Auckland, Tom Tromey wrote:

>>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@mckinlay.net.nz> writes:
>
>>> +    // Mask against high order bits of 1110
>>> +    if (addr.length == 4)
>
> Bryce> In this case, however, the compiler is hopefully smart enough to
> Bryce> optimize out the second load, so it isn't a problem.
>
> If not, let's fix the compiler.  It certainly ought to be able to do
> this.  Could you look?

I checked, and it does - identical code generated.

It would be worth checking for indirect-dispatch as well, but I dont 
have Andrew's patch installed yet.

Regards

Bryce.