Organization and symbol lookup for shared libraries

Per Bothner per@bothner.com
Fri Nov 5 16:08:00 GMT 2004


Andrew Haley wrote:

> When libgcj tries to resolve a classname, it will look in each
> database for a mapping from
> 
>    "somePrefix:classname" -> "shared object name"

How about:
  "somePrefix:classname" -> "shared object name" | "jar file name"

I.e. it may be useful to quickly find jar files as well.
The advantage is better consistency with other Java implementations.
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