Deja Vu: multiple definition of `java::lang::String::length()'?

Eric Blake ebb9@email.byu.edu
Fri Mar 15 17:32:00 GMT 2002


Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> 
> Some fields (like String's count
> field) will need to be made package-private so that random CNI methods
> can get at them. However, I suspect this would be a lot easier than
> changing gcjh to put an "inline" flag on each inline method declaration.

As a matter of fact, my recent patch to merge String with Classpath did
just that to String.count, because it made StringBuffer more efficient. 
I'm still running my updated patch through bootstrap, before I resubmit
the changes Tom suggested.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@email.byu.edu
  BYU student, free software programmer



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