RE: [cp-patches] FYI: ClassLoader caching Part 2

[Jeroen Frijters]

Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:29 +0200, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> > > I committed the attached patch to complete to ability of the VM to
> > > bypass the class caching in ClassLoader.
> > >
> > > 2005-07-25  Jeroen Frijters  <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > >         * java/lang/ClassLoader.java
> > >         (loadedClasses): Set based on VMClassLoader.VM_USE_CACHE.
> > >         (defineClass): Modified to respect 
> > VMClassLoader.VM_USE_CACHE.
> > >         * vm/reference/java/lang/VMClassLoader.java
> > >         (VM_USE_CACHE): New field.
> > 
> > This won't work if you make the VM_USE_CACHE field static 
> final. Then
> > the constant will be compiled into ClassLoader making it 
> impossible to
> > override for the runtime vm-classes later. It has to be a 
> > static method for that to work.
> 
> Like Archie says, your comment doesn't make sense ;-) If a VM decides
> not to use the cache in ClassLoader, it replaces VMClassLoader and
sets
> the constant to true.

Oh, I'm sorry, I think see what you mean. If a VM would take a binary
GNU Classpath jar, it wouldn't be able to override the value of the
flag.

Is this an important scenario? I thought you long haired types didn't
like binary distributions ;-)

Regards,
Jeroen