o every porocedural variable type is represented by a class with one
public "invoke" method whose signature matches the signature of the
procvar
o internally, dispatching happens via java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke().
WARNING: while this allows calling private/protected or other methods
that are normally not accessible from another context, a security
manger can override this. If such a security manager is installed,
most procvars will cause security exceptions
o such dispatching also requires that all arguments are wrapped, but
that's done in the compiler-generated body of the invoke method,
so that procvars can also be called conveniently from Java code
o typecasting between a procedure of object and tmethod is supported,
as well as Delphi-style replacing of only the method pointer via
@procvar1=@procvar2.
o nested procvars are not yet supported, but most of the basic
infrastructure for them is already present
* all units/programs now get an internal __FPC_JVM_Module_Class_Alias$
type when compiled for the JVM target, which is an "external" class
that maps to the unit name. This is required to look up the
JLRMethod instances for regular functions/procedures
+ new tabstractprocdef.copyas() method that allows to create a procvar
from a procdef and vice versa
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o sets of enums are handled as JUEnumSet instances, others as JUBitSet
derivatives (both smallsets and varsets, to make interoperability with
Java easier)
o special handling of set constants: these have to be constructed at run
time. In case of constants in the code, create an internal constsym to
represent them. These and regular constsyms are then aliased by an
another internal staticvarsym that is used to initialise them in the
unit initialisation code.
o until they are constructed at run time, set constants are encoded as
constant Java strings (with the characters containing the set bits)
o hlcgobj conversion of tcginnode.pass_generate_code() for the genjumps
part (that's the only part of the generic code that's used by the JVM
target)
o as far as explicit typecasting support is concerned, currently the
following ones are supported (both from/to setdefs): ordinal types,
enums, any other set types (whose size is the same on native targets)
o enum setdefs also emit signatures
o overloading routines for different ordinal set types, or for different
enum set types, is not supported on the JVM target
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o these classes get an "enum" flag in the class files
o these classes get a class field (whose type is that same enum
class) per enum in the type, which also gets the "enum" flag
o those class fields are initialised in the class constructor
with the name of the enum and their order in the declaration
o if the enum has jumps in FPC (lowest value is not 0, or not
all values are contiguous), then we add an extra field
to hold the FPC ordinal value of the enum
o these classes get a class field valled $VALUES that contains
a reference to the aforementioned class fields in order of
declaration (= ordinal->instance mapping, JDK-mandated)
o apart from the JDK-mandated instance methods (values, valueOf),
also add FPCOrdinal (returns FPC ordinal value; same as order
of declaration in case of no jumps) instance method and FPCValueOf
(returns enum corresponding to FPC ordinal value) static class
method
o the mapping between FPC ordinals and enum instances in case of
jumps is stored in a hashmap whose size is the next prime number
greater or equal than the number of enum elements
o moved several extra JDK types to the system unit for the enum
support, and for future boxing and Java set support
o several new synthetic method identifiers to generate the enum class
methods/constructor/class constructor
o enums with jumps are ordered by FPC ordinal value in the JVM
$VALUES array so that the java.lang.Enum.doCompare() method
will properly compare them
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o support for ansistring constants. It's done via a detour because the
JVM only supports UTF-16 string constants (no array of byte or anything
like that): store every ansicharacter in the lower 8 bits of an
UTF-16 constant string, and at run time copy the characters to an
ansistring. The alternative is to generate code that stores every
character separately to an array.
o the base ansistring support is implemented in a class called
AnsistringClass, and an ansistring is simply an instance of this
class under the hood
o the compiler currently does generate nil pointers as empty
ansistrings unlike for unicodestrings, where we always
explicitly generate an empty string. The reason is that
unicodestrings are the same as JLString and hence common
for Java interoperation, while ansistrings are unlikely to
be used in interaction with external Java code
* fixed indentation
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