OpenJDK b33 and IcedTea

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Mark,

I'll see what I can find out for you.

-- Jon

On Aug 28, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:

> Hi Jonathan (and hi CC compiler-dev, which I hope is the right
> mailinglist for these javah/jni questions),
>
> Maybe you saw these questions/discussion already around the openjdk
> javah JNI headers generated for static final constant fields. Which
> fields are eligible and which encoding is used in the generation. I  
> was
> hoping you might know the answers since you recently worked on the
> openjdk javah implementation. It seems that either the openjdk javah
> version doesn't strictly follow the jni specification, or the jni
> specification/book (I never know which one is authoritative) isn't
> completely clear on the exact rules here since other javah
> implementations seem to differ on the details of which fields and how
> things get encoded. If someone could enlighten us that would be
> wonderful.
>
> Original context here for:
> - selection of fields to encode unclear
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2008-August/001427.html
> - encoding rules unclear
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2008-August/001426.html
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>