Note on BC and type assertions
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Fri Oct 15 17:33:00 GMT 2004
While browsing the verifier again, I noticed that there is a dynamic
constraint that we can't represent using our current type
assertions, namely:
if (type_isarray (&t) || type_isinterface (&t) \
|| type_isabstract (&t))
verify_fail ("type is array, interface, or abstract");
We could put this check in _Jv_AllocObject (the worst option IMO), add
a new kind of verification assertion, or write a BC-only wrapper for
_Jv_AllocObject that does this check.
There may be other assertion types we need to handle as well, a pass
through the verifier looking for them is warranted.
Tom
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