V3 ABI

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:

Hans> If I understand this correctly, I think there's another issue
Hans> with the GC, though this one's very minor.  Presumably
Hans> interpreter generated vtables will be allocated as collectable
Hans> objects, and referenced only by an interior pointer at a known
Hans> offset from the start of the object?

Yeah.  However, we could keep a pointer to the real vtable start in
the Class object if that would make the GC more efficient.  This would
require a small change to gcj and a small change to the runtime.

Tom