Re: Miranda methods again (Was: compatibility with jikes ?)

[Dalibor Topic]

--- Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 18:24, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <address@hidden>
> writes:
> > 
> > Mark> I vote that we add the Miranda methods
> explicitly to the
> > Mark> abstract classes in Classpath that need
> them.
> > 
> > Don't we only need this to work around gcj bugs? 
> Maybe this should
> > only happen in the gcj tree.
> 
> Nope. There are more VMs that don't work correctly
> when those Miranda
> methods are not declared in an abstract class. And
> the latest jikes
> doesn't automatically generate them anymore.

yeah, but ... that only help with classpath's classes.
As soon as some third-party jar triggers the miranda
bug, you're back to square one, right? 

I think it would be better to write some docs on how
to fix it. Reminds me that I should fix the miranda
bug in kaffe, btw...

Serialization: I don't think one can get it right
without specifying the serial version ids anyway
because of naming differences of automatically
generated methods in compiler implementations.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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