[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm-java/docs/object-layout.txt

[Alkis Evlogimenos]

Changes in directory llvm-java/docs:

object-layout.txt updated: 1.6 -> 1.7
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Log message:

Make description about arrays of objecs a bit more clear and add a
missing struct element name.


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Diffs of the changes:  (+5 -3)

Index: llvm-java/docs/object-layout.txt
diff -u llvm-java/docs/object-layout.txt:1.6 llvm-java/docs/object-layout.txt:1.7
--- llvm-java/docs/object-layout.txt:1.6	Tue Oct 26 13:56:26 2004
+++ llvm-java/docs/object-layout.txt	Tue Oct 26 15:41:53 2004
@@ -91,13 +91,15 @@
 same way as if this was a proper class. This will allow isInstanceOf
 to work transparently for primitive java arrays.
 
-For reference type arrays we use the same struct with a different
-typeinfo:
+For reference type arrays we use the same struct for all types. The
+only difference is the vtable (actually the vtables are identical but
+they have different typeinfo structs to reflect the hierarchy of the
+contained elements):
 
 struct javaObjectArray {
   struct java_lang_Object;
   unsigned length;
-  java_lang_Object[0];
+  java_lang_Object array[0];
 };
 
 The typeinfo struct will reflect a hierarchy of array types as if B[]