PR libgcj/25265 second part: Throw NoSuchFieldError for missing fields
Bryce McKinlay
mckinlay@redhat.com
Wed Dec 7 23:28:00 GMT 2005
Andrew Haley wrote:
> This is the second part of the patch, the part that defers throwing a
> NoSuchFieldError until we try to use a missing field.
>
> Unfortunately, this really requires us to insert some
> compiler-generated code. On the plus side, this is only necessary
> when accessing fields that beling to some other class, and in
> Object-Oriented programming we really aren't supposed to do that sort
> of thing. So it doesn't matter. ;-)
>
Accessing fields across public class boundaries frowned upon, but I
don't think it is unusual in some other cases. eg: It seems reasonably
common to access fields directly when:
- the field accesses are between nested classes
- the fields are in a superclass
Classpath, for example, has many examples of the first type in
particular. Of course, I don't see any better way to fix this, but it
would be interesting to see what effect (if any) this change has on
Dacapo/SpecJVM scores.
Bryce
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