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[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com> writes:

Jeff> What needs to work in gcj is Class.forName("...") which is
Jeff> scattered all over in most java code, including the Sun java.*
Jeff> classes, and most JDBC programs (consider how JDBC drivers are
Jeff> loaded dynamically).

When you write this, do you mean that it is a common idiom to pass a
constant string to Class.forName()?  (I'm afraid most of the Java code
I've read is code written here.)

Jeff> So gcj either needs some way to statically link together all the
Jeff> classes it will eventually need, whether or not they are
Jeff> initially referenced, or dynamic loading via dlopen/dlsym/etc.
Jeff> (Obviously dynamic loading is preferred...)

I agree we need to do this.  I just don't think it will be in the
initial release.  Implementing dynamic loading should be pretty easy;
we just don't have the time.

Tom