Re: Moving system properties to gnu.classpath.*

[Dalibor Topic]

Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> Michael Koch wrote:
>
> > Personally I'm against both types of such hacks. The current solution 
> > probably duplicates some code but it easy to understand, needs no 
> > hacks and extra support from the VMs.
>
>
> I don't think the current solution is easy to understand. The library
> initialization bootstrapping is quite complex because many classes
> require access to the system properties and currently that forces
> java.lang.System to be touched (which in turn constructs
> System.in/out/err and that sets off more static initializers).

Couldn't we solve that by splitting off the dealing with properties into 
a static inner class of System instead?

cheers,
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