On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:11:50AM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi Pekka, > > On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 16:47 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > I'd like to check in these simple invokedynamic API stubs into CVS HEAD. > > The APIs are not final but I think now is as good time as any to start > > working on them especially as it needs work on the VM side. Furthermore, > > there's already open source projects such as JRuby out there that use > > invokedynamic so I think GNU Classpath probably needs to support it at > > some point anyway. > > > The classes don't do anything useful yet and don't even contain all > > the specified methods. > > I have to admit that I don't like putting in stubs. In the past we have > decided to just leave things really unimplemented if we don't support > it. And as you say it needs a bit more design thinking. So I would > suggest you do this on a branch first (grmbl CVS...) and/or first try to > spec it out against a jato VM implementation. > I'd also rather see implementation than stubs :-) Or if you do add stubs, please use the gnu.classpath.NotImplementedException to mark them as such. Also, as JDK7 stuff, I don't think this is 100% final yet. There's lots of JDK6 stuff that needs doing :-D > BTW. John Rose has lots of background material online: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/ > > Cheers, > > Mark > > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
