Re: Classpath / GCJ java.io Merge

[Per Bothner]

Brian Jones wrote:
> I have noticed that for a good deal of CNI code it is quite straight
> forward to turn it into C or C++ based JNI instead.  There was a Perl
> script that someone purported to do some of this a while ago.  I'm
> tempted to play with it a bit.

That would be great, but surprising.  I would think you'd need
a fair bit of analysis to convert CNI to JNI.

If we could maintain native methods in readable CNI, possibly
with some annotations/conventions to ease the script's job,
and generate JNI automatically from that, it might solve
much of the CNI vs JNI problems.  For the hard bits, we could
use #ifdef CNI sections.
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