[lug] C++ question, without buying expensive doc.s

Tom Tromey tromey at redhat.com
Wed Jan 12 11:45:27 MST 2005


>>>>> "Tkil" == Tkil  <tkil at scrye.com> writes:

Tkil> You came to mind because you're a GCC hacker, and because you've done
Tkil> so much work on gjc -- I figured that you would have hit quite a few
Tkil> of the bumps on this road.  (That is, it seems that the intersection
Tkil> of "Java requires serialization support" and "compiling Java to native
Tkil> machine code" would have brought some of these monsters to light...)

Yeah, unfortunately for the OP, gcj is special... since we have
control over the compiler, we just have gcj generate all the required
reflection information.  You need this for other parts of java, not
just serialization, so in our case the support is just designed in.

Tom



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