libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

[Andrew Haley]

Adam Megacz writes:
 > 
 > 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?

Inline reference checks, mostly.

Andrew.