Re: question about vm/reference files

[Eric Blake]

> The thought was that Classpath either would not provide the classes
> that are VM dependent (leaving those to the VM) or that there would be
> multiple directories (vm/gcj, vm/orp, vm/kaffe, etc.)  The ugly
> complexity appears to be necessary.
> 
> Brian

That still doesn't explain why Object is in the top level when the other
core classes are not.  Even if these classes have no Java
implementation, it is still useful to have a .java file in Classpath for
making the .class file which jikes requires for compilation purposes.

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