Lots has changed since we forked Android's libcore, so merging the
latest upstream code has required extensive changes to the
Avian/Android port.
One big change is that we now use Avian's versions of
java.lang.Object, java.lang.Class, java.lang.ClassLoader, some
java.lang.reflect.* classes, etc. instead of the Android versions.
The main reason is that the Android versions have become very
Dex/Dalvik-specific, and since Avian is based on Java class files, not
dex archives, that code doesn't make sense here. This has the side
benefit that we can share more native code with classpath-avian.cpp
and reduce the amount of Java/C++ code duplication.
Previously, I used a shell script to extract modification date ranges
from the Git history, but that was complicated and unreliable, so now
every file just gets the same year range in its copyright header. If
someone needs to know when a specific file was modified and by whom,
they can look at the Git history themselves; no need to include it
redundantly in the header.
Rather than try to support mixing Avian's core classes with those of
an external class library -- which necessitates adding a lot of stub
methods which throw UnsupportedOperationExceptions, among other
comprimises -- we're looking to support such external class libraries
in their unmodified forms. The latter strategy has already proven
successful with OpenJDK's class library. Thus, this commit removes
the stub methods, etc., which not only cleans up the code but avoids
misleading application developers as to what classes and methods
Avian's built-in class library supports.
