[cp-patches] RE: RFC: New class loader patch proposal

[Jeroen Frijters]

Robert Lougher wrote:
> On 7/28/05, Jeroen Frijters <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Here's an alternative patch that rips out most of the complexity and
> > leaves everything to the VM. It took me about three minutes 
> to implement
> > this new interface for IKVM, so I know I'm happy with it!
> > 
> > The only thing missing that the documentation should be 
> improved a bit.
> > 
> > Rob and Archie, is this (close to) what you both need?
> > 
> 
> Yes, I think it's perfect :)  The problem's going to be gij/gcj.  They
> have their own Class, but use the loaded class hashtable in
> ClassLoader.  But I vote for this, it is so much cleaner.

I plan on checking this in later today (gcj has its own copy of
ClassLoader, so in the short term it doesn't affect them and in the long
term we'll figure out how to merge their requirements).

Rob, do you have a patch for JamVM available to make it compatible with
this new approach?

Regards,
Jeroen