+2006-05-10 Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
+
+ * java/lang/natClassLoader.cc: Add comments.
+
2006-05-09 Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
* prims.cc (_Jv_soleIndirectCompiledEngine): New.
loader->loadedClasses->remove(klass->name->toString());
}
+
+// Class registration.
+//
+// There are two kinds of functions that register classes.
+//
+// Type 1:
+//
+// These take the address of a class that is in an object file.
+// Because these classes are not allocated on the heap, It is also
+// necessary to register the address of the object for garbage
+// collection. This is used with the "old" C++ ABI and with
+// -findirect-dispatch -fno-indirect-classes.
+//
+// Type 2:
+//
+// These take an initializer struct, create the class, and return the
+// address of the newly created class to their caller. These are used
+// with -findirect-dispatch.
+//
+// _Jv_RegisterClasses() and _Jv_RegisterClasses_Counted() are
+// functions of Type 1, and _Jv_NewClassFromInitializer() and
+// _Jv_RegisterNewClasses() are of Type 2.
+
+
// This function is called many times during startup, before main() is
// run. At that point in time we know for certain we are running
// single-threaded, so we don't need to lock when adding classes to the