GCJ and generics

[Cedric Berger]

Alan Eliasen wrote:

> Hmmmm... yes, in a way, that's right.  However, for example, in one
>case I listed,
>
>public class BasicObjectEnumeration<T>
>	implements java.util.Enumeration<String>
>[...]
>  Decompilation shows that one of these methods is just a bridge that
>delegates to the other:
>  
>
Exactly.

>   The Java spec (section 8.4.2) indicates that:
>  
>
That's the JVM spec that count here, not the language spec.

>or
>that the return type can be considered in some way to be part of the
>signature.
>
Exactly, the return type is always part of the signature at the 
classfile level.
Cedric