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Re: JVM -b backend

From: Adam Megacz <gcj at lists dot megacz dot com>
To: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 14 Jan 2002 10:16:16 -0800
Subject: Re: JVM -b backend
Organization: Myself
References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.1020108225725.314251B-100000@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <877kqs9mpt.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <86vge4bzyf.fsf@megacz.com> <87d70cvmnd.fsf@creche.redhat.com>

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Adam> Hrm, how would you do goto's?

> The JVM has a goto instruction.

Wow, what's it used for? The language doesn't have a goto...

> The real problem is dealing with the different data models, namely
> pointers.  Even this is solvable though.

Store everything in byte[]'s and represent pointers as offsets into
the array?

  - a

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