Eww: Modifier.INTERPRETED overload

Andrew Haley aph-gcc@littlepinkcloud.COM
Wed May 30 18:08:00 GMT 2007


Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph-gcc@littlepinkcloud.COM> writes:
 > 
 > Andrew> Maybe, but access_flags is a u2, and there aren't many bits left.
 > Andrew> 0x80, perhaps?  It's used for VARARGS at the moment.
 > 
 > It seems that whatever we pick may be overloaded by the JVM at some
 > later date.

Right.  That's why my patch didn't choose another bit.

 > Maybe instead we can find a hole in Class and stuff a byte field of
 > gcj-local flags there.
 
That sounds like a Much Better Plan.  We can even add a field.

I'm still minded to use my patch on active branches, though.

Andrew.



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