[kaffe] Kaffe CVS: kaffe dalibor

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Tim,

--- Timothy Stack <stack at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Fixed & checked in. I used $(srcdir) instead of
> > $(abssrcdir).
> 
> Yeah, that worked for me too.  The reason it was
> failing silently is 
> because Character.java couldn't load 'unicode.tbl'
> and 'unicode.idx'.   
> Apparently, it will _only_ load them from a JAR
> file, so just 
> specifying the 'lib' directory wasn't enough.  And,
> since it was 
> Character that was failing, it couldn't print out
> any error messages.

One way to avoid such things in the future would be to
use Classpath's CharData class.
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/classpath/classpath/gnu/java/lang/CharData.java?rev=1.6&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
as proposed by Mark Wielaard
http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2002-December/009414.html

By loading the data from a class file instead of a
resource, we can probably reduce the set of essential
files needed to run HelloWorld quite a bit, as there
may no longer be a need to do all that resource
loading stuff. And we can rely on Classpath to provide
us with a current CharData file, which is a good
thing, IMHO.

What do you think?

cheers,
dalibor topic

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