BC ABI stuff

[Andrew Haley]

Ranjit Mathew writes:
 > May I request that a section on the BC-ABI implementation
 > be added to either the GCJ manual or the GCC Internals
 > manual? You can perhaps copy-paste much of the material
 > from your paper in the GCC summit.

Yes.  We need to do this.

 > Actually, it would be nice to have such a section for
 > GCJ's implementation as a whole - class and object
 > representation, interaction with the GC, etc.

Indeed it would.

 > Tom Tromey wrote:
 > > flag to indicate "don't try to read dependent classes, and don't
 > > bother warning me about it either", but those things are being worked
 > 
 > Sorry, I'm a bit rusty on this stuff, but why exactly? If
 > I refer to a class directly (i.e. not via, say, Class.forName())
 > isn't the compiler supposed to check that class?

If the class resolution isn't done until runtime, there's no point in
checking anything at compile time.  Besides, it might not be possible:
the class might not be in the classpath.

Andrew.