Re: Classpath / GCJ java.io Merge

[Per Bothner]

Brian Jones wrote:
> I'd like to see our I/O implementation handle 64-bit filesystems and
> all the native libs be 64-bit compatible (i.e. no assuming pointers
> are ints, file handles are ints, etc.).

GCJ uses the "magic" class type gnu.gcj.RawData as essentially
a non-GC'd 'void *' pointer.  This may not be portable to other
VMs directly, but you could have a script convert gnu.gcj.RawData
to int or long, depending on the target word size.
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