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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:37:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: Eww: Modifier.INTERPRETED overload
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Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph-gcc@littlepinkcloud.COM> writes:
> 
> Andrew> This should, perhaps, ring an alarm bell.  Way back when this code was
> Andrew> written, classes weren't marked synthetic, but they are now!
> Andrew> So, any compiled class that is marked as SYNTHETIC is treated as
> Andrew> INTERPRETED by libgcj.  Bad Things Happen.
> 
> I'm sure this is my fault but I don't remember what I was thinking.
> 
> Andrew> We really need to find another way of marking classes as interpreted,
> 
> Yeah.

It's probably obvious, but why can't the value of the constant be changed?

David Daney.