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|    glen herrmannsfeldt to Andy Johnson    |
|    Re: Questions about Bytecode    |
|    25 Apr 07 04:17:08    |
      From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu              Andy Johnson wrote:       > To answer your question about labels, they aren't implemented in the Java       > bytecode at all. Label points are derived from destinations of branch       > points. If you need to know which bytecodes are reachable via branching,       > you have to synthesize the bytecodes.              I wonder how much easier code verification would be if branch points       had to be specified explicitly.              I am remembering programmable calculators with the LABEL instruction,       which in most cases was done as a linear search through program       memory for a label.              -- glen              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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