Re: [RFA] _Jv_CompileMethod

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> Bryce> Why call _Jv_InterpMethod::run() instead of
> Bryce> _Jv_InterpMethod::compile() directly?
>
> Unfortunately, AFAIK, you can't do that.  compile() needs a table of
> the addresses of the labels in run(), and there is no way to get at
> this table outside of run().  This is a known limitation of writing
> interpreters this way (the vmgen papers mention this as well).
>   

Oh, indeed. I suppose you could store a pointer to the list somewhere 
which is visible to compile(), but that would be ugly in itself and 
probably not worth the effort.

Bryce