Bytecode verifier

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 05:47:00 GMT 2004


Ranjit Mathew writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Ranjit Mathew writes:
 > >  > BTW, as has been pointed earlier, Sun's JVM doesn't
 > >  > even bother verifying classes loaded locally unless
 > >  > you use the "-verify" flag, so maybe even we ought
 > >  > not to bother by default.
 > > 
 > > Interesting.
 > 
 > Wait!! That's wrong - it seems to be valid only for
 > classes in the *bootstrap* CLASSPATH (bootclasspath):

That seems sensible.  :-)

Andrew.



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