Need reviewer - @GenerateNativeHeader

[Alan Bateman]

Kelly,

Can you hold off pushing this for a few days? While this is compile-time 
only dependency I think the impact needs further study.

-Alan.


On 23/05/2012 02:14, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> 7170969: Add @GenerateNativeHeader to classes whose fields need to be exported for JNI
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk8/generateHeaders1/webrev/
>
> The new build infrastructure wants to fully automate the generation of the JNI header files (running javah).
> On classes that have "native" methods this is obvious, but class that only export constants, and whose constants
> are needed in the JNI native code, we need to mark these classes as needing their native header file generated.
>
> This change is adding:
>
> import javax.tools.annotation.GenerateNativeHeader;
>
> /* No native methods here, but the constants are needed in the supporting JNI code */
> @GenerateNativeHeader
>
> To any class without a native method, but needing to expose it's constants to the native code.
>
> -kto
>