BasicType enum

Tom Rodriguez Thomas.Rodriguez at Sun.COM
Wed Jan 14 12:04:10 PST 2009


I believe it's purely historical.  I suspect Oak had a few more types  
down there.

tom

On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Stephen Dawkins wrote:

> Hi
>
> A quick question about the BasicType enum in globalDefinitions.hpp.
>
> enum BasicType {
>  T_BOOLEAN  =  4,
>  T_CHAR     =  5,
>  T_FLOAT    =  6,
>  T_DOUBLE   =  7,
>  T_BYTE     =  8,
>  T_SHORT    =  9,
>  T_INT      = 10,
>  T_LONG     = 11,
>  T_OBJECT   = 12,
>  T_ARRAY    = 13,
>  T_VOID     = 14,
>  T_ADDRESS  = 15,
>  T_NARROWOOP= 16,
>  T_CONFLICT = 17,
>  T_ILLEGAL  = 99
> };
>
> Why are 0, 1, 2 and 3 missing?
>
> Regards
> Stephen
>




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