Re: namespace namespace
Andrew Haley <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gcc.java.devel |
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Sam Ruby wrote: > Andrew Haley wrote: >> Sam Ruby wrote: >>> Bryce McKinlay wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Chris Burdess<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Some genius (?) has a namespace called "namespace" :-) >>>>> That would be Sun. And in Java "namespace" is not a keyword so it's a >>>>> perfectly legal package name. >>> namespace also happens to be the name of a concept in XML... >>> >>>>>> I think you'll have to edit the header file by hand. >>> To what? Specifically, what should namespace "namespace" be mapped to? >> >> namespace$ >> >>> It is beginning to appear to me that gcj/g++ will do name mangling of >>> Java packages without regard to C++ reserved words, resulting in entry >>> points that can't conveniently be referenced in C++ using CNI. >> >> That's right. It should be fairly easy to fix this, though. > > Just so that I'm clear: what you are saying is that *both* gcj/g++ and > gcjh need to be fixed. If you want to be able to access namespace namespace from CNI, yes. > I believe that doing such, while necessary, would break the binary > interface: in particular code which is compiled today to call into JAXP > would not work with new versions of JAXP that are compiled with a > version of gcj/g++ which has this fix. > > Is that OK? Yes. >>> Where can I find the "old" gcjh? The current code is in Java, which >>> presumably does *not* have the mapping: >>> >>> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/classpath/tools/gnu/classpath/tools/javah/?root=classpath >> >> But this is easily fixable, as I pointed out in my previous massage. >> >> The old gcjh is very out of date. I'd just fix the current code. > > Is that "I'd" or "I'll" :-) I'd. > Is there something more I can provide? Will gcj/g++ also be fixed? Well, I already suggested how you might fix gcjh. It's a matter of whether you want to be able to access namespace namespace from CNI or merely not have header files that choke C++. Why not try the fix? Do you really need CNI access to namespace namespace ? Andrew.