Hi Tom, On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:41 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > I think this merge could be done fairly simply. In fact I think it > just requires adding a 'Class' argument to > VMStackWalker.getCallingClass and VMStackWalker.getCallingClassLoader. > This argument would name the immediate caller, and these methods > would be changed to return the class just above the argument class in > the stack trace. > > With this change I think I could immediately merge Logger, > ResourceBundle, Package, and parts of SecurityManager and the little > CORBA differences. > > I don't think this would overly affect performance (a big worry on the > gcj end) or maintainability on the Classpath side. > > It would require a small VM change. However, other VMs could simply > add this method argument and then ignore it, and things would continue > to work as they do today. I like it since this looks like the proposal I made last year. But there were some (strong) opinions about that change back then. You might want to read that thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath-patches/2005-01/msg00138.html Cheers, Mark -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath/attachments/20060514/caa70ced/attachment.pgp
