Re: Classpath build process and VM-specific issues

[Andrew Haley]

Etienne Gagnon writes:
 > 
 > IMO, the cleanest approach is really the use of a byte array.

Well, I tell you what: we could wrap the {byte[],long} in an opaque
type, call it a "native pointer", and be done with it.

- Everyone who can use a long as a pointer (and, in practice, this is
  everyone) will do so.

- Anyone who needs to use a byte[] as a pointer will do so.

- We can still have some type safety and readability by making
  subclasses of "native pointer".

Andrew.