Field resolution -vs- JNI
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Thu Mar 22 22:21:00 GMT 2001
I tracked down the JNI failure.
The JNI code assumes, as I apparently once assumed, that field
resolution happens as side effect of class initialization. Field
resolution is the act of turning the field's type from a Utf8Const
into a Class reference.
Reflection assumes that field resolution happens lazily.
Some notes on this:
* I'm going to change JNI to do lazily resolution.
* I don't understand why we don't just emit a direct class reference
in the compiler.
* We seem to inconsistently acquire the class lock when doing field
resolution. I'm going to change things to always acquire this
lock.
Tom
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