variables, class/record fields and arrays with enumtype(0) on
creation, so that using them without explicitly initializing them
doesn't cause a null-pointer exception. If enumtype(0) is not a
valid enum, they are not initialized (and since they wouldn't have
a valid value on native targets either in that case, an exception
on use is acceptable)
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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 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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in a single statement, to be added later)
o the unicodestrings are internally simply java.lang.String instances
o at the language level, the unicodestrings are assignment-compatible
with java.lang.String
o constant strings can be implicitly converted to java.lang.String
o since java.lang.String is immutable, in particular changing a
single character in a string is extremely inefficient. This could
be solved by letting unicodestring map to java.lang.StringBuilder,
but that would make integration with plain Java code harder
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implemented via classes, all descending from system.FpcBaseRecordType
(records are also considered to be "related" to system.FpcBaseRecordType
on the JVM target)
* several routines are auto-generated for all record-classes: apart
from a default constructor (if there is none), also clone (which
returns a new instance containing a deep copy of the current
instance) and deepCopy (which copies all fields of one instance
into another one)
o added new field "synthetickind" to tprocdef that indicates what
kind of synthetically generated method it is (if any), and
mark such methods also as "synthetic" in the JVM assembler code
o split off the JVM-specific parser code (e.g., to add default
constructors) into pjvm.pas
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svn r17068,17071,17081,17136
* changed all init_paras code in both thlcgobj and ncgutil to use
location_get_data_ref() instead of direct a_load_loc_reg()/
ref.base:=reg so it also works with the JVM target
* changed all init_paras code so it works with targets that do
not pass an implicit high parameter for open array (and a similar
fix in ncgcal)
+ added support for initializing array (both regular and open)
"out" parameters of reference counted types on the JVM target
(the arrays will be initialised with nil rather than an empty
array for implementation reasons, see comments in compproc.inc)
* factored out calling of functions in the system unit directly
from hlcgobj
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