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From: | Etienne Gagnon |
Subject: | Re: Classpath build process and VM-specific issues |
Date: | Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:33:34 -0500 |
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Just to be cristal clear: I propose to declare vmData of type Object, so that a native implementation can choose to creat an instance of *any* type to hold the VM-specific value. Etienne Etienne Gagnon wrote:
Etienne Gagnon wrote:The most obvious implementation of vmData is to be a byte[] instance holding the byte of a native pointer to an internal VM non-moveable^^^^ bytes (of course) Why byte[]? For transparent protability to 16, 32, 64, 128, etc. bit processors without having to change anything. Etienne
-- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info.uqam.ca/~egagnon/ SableVM: http://www.sablevm.org/ SableCC: http://www.sablecc.org/
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