Re: [java-gnome-hackers] gnome.UIInfo array out of bound.

[Tom B. <Tom...@Su...>]

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 13:36, Mark Howard wrote:
> > I think that all the byte array methods should be replaced with char
> > arrays until the actual native GTK or GNOME call is made.  In Java, char
> > arrays should always be used with characters, while byte arrays should
> > only be used for raw data.  If we adopt this policy now, we probably
> > won't be broken by future internationalization fixes in GTK and GNOME.
> Does this mean that the automatically generated code would have been
> better using char arrays also? or does it just affect the custom written
> code. 

I don't have a strong opinion, unless that code is part of our public or
protected API, then yes, string or char array parameters should use Java
char arrays.  If the API isn't affected, then converting to a byte array
in Java may make sense.  

In general, I'm looking to minimize the native code I work on and move
what functionality I can into Java.  That's not because I'm a Java
bigot, but because maintaining the code is easier since more bugs are
caught by the compiler and runtime.  This is especially true for native
code that makes unnecessary upcalls into the VM, since upcalls are a lot
slower than downcalls.  

Tom