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 primitive types are first boxed
o the parameter is passed inside an array of one class instance
o changing the parameter inside the routine (by assigning a value to it
like in Delphi.NET and different from regular Pascal code) will replace
this class instance (again boxing the value if required)
o on return, the class instance is extracted, unboxed if required, and
assigned back to the original location
o formal const parameters are handled without the extra array indirection,
since they cannot be changed
TODO: while writing tjvmcallparanode.handleformalcopyoutpara() I forgot that
calling getcopy on ttemprefnodes whose ttempcreatenode hasn't been copied
yet works fine, so that code is more complex than needed. Still have to
fix.
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them to shortstringclass, make sure the address operator is
"typed" so that we don't insert useless checkcast instructions
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o support for JVM arrays in JVM addrnodes and derefnodes (so we
can take the address of var parameters to store them in the
parentfpstruct and later dereference them)
o process loadnode.left also in tjvmloadnode.pass_generate_code() when
handling var-parameters
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o since the JVM target has no stack/framepointer that can be passed
on to nested routines, all local variables and parameters accessed
from nested routines are grouped into a local record whose address
is passed to nested routines. The same technique is also required
for LLVM in the future
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(non-dynamic arrays, records, shortstrings)
- removed the ability to typecast such types directly into related class
types, you have to use the @-operator first now to get a pointer to
the type
o updated the RTL and internal compiler code to properly use this
new convention
o allowed removing several special cases from
tjvmtypeconvnode.target_specific_general_typeconv(), and that
method can probably be removed completely over time
* no longer give compile time errors for pointer-related typecasts that
will fail at run time, because the checking was too complex and could
be worked around via actual pointer typecasts anyway
* removed some unnecessary checkcast operations (for shortstring/
shortstringclass)
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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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o when allocating array temps for the JVM target, use the specified
"forcesize" for the first dimension, since the arraydef size may
be invalid (e.g., in case it's an array constructor)
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o support for copying value parameters at the callee side if they were
passed by reference in hlcg
o JVM g_concatcopy() implementation for arrays
o moved code to get length of an array from njvminl to hlcgcpu so it can
be reused elsewhere as well
o export array copy helpers from system unit for use when assigning one
array to another
o some generic support for types that are normally not implicit pointers,
but which are for the JVM target (such as normal arrays)
* handle assigning nil to a dynamic array by generating a setlength(x,0)
node instead of by hardcoding a call to fpc_dynarray_clear, so
target-specific code can handle it if required
* hook up gethltemp() for JVM ttgjvm so array temps are properly
allocated
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