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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2002
Gilad Bracha, Los Altos, CA (US);
Deepa Viswanathan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for constructing dispatch tables. In one embodiment of the present invention, the decision to allocate a new dispatch table entry is sensitive to the accessibility of a class. A dispatch table and dispatch table construction process is described in which the entries for a Vtable are determined such that conflicts between accessibility and class hierarchy are avoided. In particular, a dispatch table and dispatch table construction process is described which takes a method's accessibility and package status into consideration in determining the proper overriding semantics and table building techniques. The dispatch table may have more than one distinct entry for a method.