[xmlvm-dev] static methods and C

[Panayotis K. <pan...@pa...>]

I have a strangle situation with C backend, iFireworks and generated C code. Of course before doing anything I performed an "ant clean" to be sure.

For optimization reasons, I've played a bit with the Java iOS compatibility library and made it a bit "lighter", to see what happens.
One of the changes was to remove some unneeded private static methods.
Then I re-created the C-wrappers with the new java files.

To be sure that the changes were performed, I enter 
xmlvm.jar:/main/main.jar:/iphone/cocoa-compat-lib.jar:...
and had a look at the generated files there if they have inherited the change (they did).
I took as an example the CGRect class and its static properties.

Then I went to iFireworks and recreated the Xcode project. Unfortunately the generated files there recreated some methods, i.e. the CLINIT method which was of course missing from the generated C wrappers.
Not only that, it tagged it as "unimplemented" (which by default was an empty statement).
Of course at this point the application broke.

If I removed "exit(-1)" from the not-implemented function, the application worked perfectly. So it seems that the problems was with the injected (but not anymore required) CLINT method.

How can we solve this? Am I missing something?