[kaffe] jnirefs.h - is this needed

[Guilhem Lavaux]

Michael Franz wrote:
>>Thanks to your question I have reread the JNI spec and it looks like we
>>should on the contrary enable the JNI refs.
>>They are not needed in most cases because we store objects on the stack
>>but if the native call stores object in the heap we may lose track of
>>used objects and garbage collects them though we should not. I don't
>>know why they have been disabled by helmer (?)
>>http://www.kaffe.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/kaffe/kaffe/kaffevm/Attic/jnirefs.h.diff?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
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> Are we going to be enabling this?
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I am working on it. It will come with the patch I'm preparing to support 
java.lang.ref in kaffe.

Regards,

Guilhem.