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package sun.jvm.hotspot.types;
import sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.*;
/** A specialization of Field which adds Address-typed accessor
methods. Since we currently do not understand pointer types (and
since coercion from integer to pointer types and back is often
done in C programs anyway) these accessors are not typechecked as,
for example, the Java primitive type accessors are. */
public interface AddressField extends Field {
/** This accessor requires that the field be nonstatic, or a WrongTypeException will be thrown. */
public Address getValue(Address addr) throws UnmappedAddressException, UnalignedAddressException, WrongTypeException;
/** This accessor requires that the field be static, or a WrongTypeException will be thrown. */
public Address getValue() throws UnmappedAddressException, UnalignedAddressException, WrongTypeException;
}