Re: Re: Re: Generics in ASM APIs?

Howard, what makes you believe that asm doesn't support any particular
features of java 1.3..1.6?

  regards,
  Eugene

On 2011-01-30 6:43 PM, "Howard Lewis Ship" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What is the criteria for abandoning JDK 1.3/1.4 support so that
> annotations can be fully embraced?  Or is there a desire to avoid some
> kind of overhead associated with generics, rather than just purely
> support for older JDKs?
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Rémi Forax <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 01/01/2011 12:21 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> >>
> >> I've been searching the archive for this, haven't found much.
> >>
> >> Is there any plan to apply generics to collections in the ASM APIs?  I
use
> >> the
> >> Tree API and I'd prefer ClassNode to define List<AnnotationNode>  (and
so
> >> forth)
> >> rather than just List.
> >>
> >> I realize that ASM predates JDK 1.5 generics, but that's five years ago
> >> now!
> >
> > There is a plan in my mind :)
> >
> > The idea is to generify ASM but customize the optimizer to generate 1.3
> > compatible bytecode.
> > With that, asm-all.jar will be 1.3 compatible but asm-all-debug.jar will
be
> > 1.5.
> > So you can compile using asm-all-debug.jar and use generics and
> > run using asm-all.jar which is as small as always.
> >
> > Alas, I have no time to play with that idea,
> > but I can sponsor anyone who want to try :)
> >
> > Rémi
> >
> >
> >
> >
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