Re: VMFile confusion

[Michael Koch]

Am Sonntag, 25. April 2004 11:06 schrieb Thomas Zander:
> On Saturday 24 April 2004 22:12, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> > So applying this logic, there should be no VMFile class because the
> > native methods of File.java are all implementable in a "normal"
> > Classpath-supplied shared library and are not VM-specific.
>
> Just curious; is there any platform dependent naming scheme?
> The simples example being that these files will have to be
> re-implemented under Windows if someone wants to port classpath?

The idea is to only use different native code choosed at configure time, 
so no change in java code is needed. libgcj does this successfully 
since a long time.


Michael