Jeroen Frijters wrote:
Archie Cobbs wrote:
I think we desperately need a VMClassLoader.getCallerClassLoader()
But what the semantics of this method? I.e., define the "caller".
For example, would it return the same thing for both of these
call traces?
Foo.method -> Runtime.loadLibrary()
Foo.method -> System.loadLibrary() -> Runtime.loadLibrary()
No magic. It always returns the caller. We would simply modify
System.loadLibrary to call Runtime.loadLibraryImpl(String libname,
ClassLoader loader) (or whatever).
You're saying it's equivalent to "VMSecurityManager.getClassContext()[1]" ?
There are several instances of that expression in Classpath, so this
optimization may indeed be useful. (This is an orthogonal issue from
the one I originally asked about, but I agree with you).
But what about:
Foo.method()->Method.invoke()->Runtime.loadLibrary()->getCallerClassLoader()
Is the "caller's" class supposed to be "Foo" or "Method" ? This is something
that is not made clear in the documentation to getClassContext().