libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

[Adam Megacz]

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Andrew> It's not ugly, just different.  Instead of
> Andrew>    void barf (java::lang::grope *poo)
> Andrew> you have
> Andrew>    void barf (ref<java::lang::grope> poo)
> Andrew> and carry on as usual.

What's the advantage to using template-references instead of pointers?
Non-conservative GC, perhaps? What else?

  - a

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