(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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the types as declared in the system unit, since they can also be
used with equivalent but different types (e.g., byte vs shortint)
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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 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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o since the JVM does not support call-by-reference, setlength() works
by taking an argument pointing to the old array and one to the new
array (the latter is always created in advance on the caller side,
even if not strictly required, because we cannot easily create it
on the callee side in an efficient way). Then we copy parts of the
old array to the new array as necessary
o to represent creating a new dynamic array, the JVM target uses
an in_new_x tinlinenode
+ tasnode support for the JVM. Special: it can also be used to convert
java.lang.Object to dynamic arrays, and dynamic arrays of java.lang.Object
to dynamic arrays with more dimensions (arrays are special JVM objects,
and such support is required for the setlength support)
+ check whether explicit type conversions are valid, and if so, add the
necessary conversion code since we cannot simply reinterpret bit patterns
in most cases in the JVM:
o in case of class and/or dynamic array types, convert to an as-node
o in case of int-to-float or float-to-int, use java.lang.Float/Double
helpers (+ added the definitions of these helpers to the system unit)
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