What is the reason for the additional indirection in Handle?

Gary Benson gbenson at redhat.com
Tue Sep 9 00:03:50 PDT 2008


Keith McGuigan wrote:
> Transistions from Java -> native code (VM or library) and back
> also have checks for safepoints.

Do things safepoint on Java-native?  I thought it was only
native-Java.  I thought Java-native didn't safepoint so you
could pass oops as arguments to runtime calls.

Cheers,
Gary

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