Other approach to the vftbl problem

[cacao.git] / tables.c

diff --git a/tables.c b/tables.c
index 8797971aacf2849963412267cadbc398ffa2d337..4166fbb615149cca628c6197a1deeddd8438dc0a 100644 (file)
--- a/tables.c
+++ b/tables.c
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 
        See file COPYRIGHT for information on usage and disclaimer of warranties
 
-       Enth"alt Supportfunktionen f"ur:
-               - Lesen von JavaClass-Files
-           - unicode-Symbole
-               - den Heap 
-               - zus"atzliche Support-Funktionen
+       Contains support functions for:
+               - Reading of Java class files
+               - Unicode symbols
+               - the heap
+               - additional support functions
 
        Authors: Reinhard Grafl      EMAIL: cacao@complang.tuwien.ac.at
        Changes: Mark Probst         EMAIL: cacao@complang.tuwien.ac.at
@@ -508,14 +508,14 @@ void utf_show ()
 }
 
 /******************************************************************************
-*********************** Diverse Support-Funktionen ****************************
+*********************** Misc support functions ********************************
 ******************************************************************************/
 
 
-/******************** Funktion: desc_to_type **********************************
+/******************** Function: desc_to_type **********************************
    
-    Findet zu einem gegebenen Typdescriptor den entsprechenden 
-    Java-Grunddatentyp.
+       Determines the corresponding Java base data type for a given type
+       descriptor.
        
 ******************************************************************************/
 
@@ -545,10 +545,10 @@ u2 desc_to_type (utf *descriptor)
 }
 
 
-/********************** Funktion: desc_typesize *******************************
+/********************** Function: desc_typesize *******************************
 
-       Berechnet die L"ange (in Byte) eines Datenelements gegebenen Typs,
-       der durch den Typdescriptor gegeben ist.
+       Calculates the lenght in bytes needed for a data element of the type given
+       by its type descriptor.
        
 ******************************************************************************/
 
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ u2 utf_nextu2(char **utf_ptr)
     return unicode_char;
 }
  
-/******************** Funktion: class_new **************************************
+/******************** Function: class_new **************************************
 
     searches for the class with the specified name in the classes hashtable,
     if there is no such class a new classinfo structure is created and inserted
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ classinfo *class_new (utf *u)
        return c;
 }
 
-/******************** Funktion: class_get **************************************
+/******************** Function: class_get **************************************
 
     searches for the class with the specified name in the classes hashtable
     if there is no such class NULL is returned