interface dispatch

[Godmar Back]

> 
> Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> writes:
> 
> >  Oh, okay, I see, you could define
> > 
> > typedef struct {
> > 	Hjava_lang_Class	*iface;
> > 	methodptr		*meth[1];
> > } *partialiftable;
> > in this case too.
> 
> Yes, but that adds an extra level indirection, which is to be
> avoided if possible.

No.  I guess I wasn't clear enough.  I meant this only as syntactic
sugar, the memory layout being identical.  If methodptr is typedef'd 
as void *, it should actually have been:

	methodptr	meth[1];

to express a variable-length array that's part of the structure.

	- Godmar