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+Support functions for Android's class libraries
+
+
+These are VM-agnostic native functions that implement methods for system
+class libraries. All code here:
+
+ - MUST be associated with a standard java.* class (no Android-specific stuff)
+ - MUST use JNI
+ - SHOULD be written in C rather than C++ (it's usually smaller and all of
+ our VMs are written in C)
+
+Some helper functions are defined in ../include/nativehelper/JNIHelp.h.
+