Re: anyone interested in decompilation

Juergen Kahrs wrote:


> JVM is also different in that it doesnt know the concept
> of a pointer.


This is a pet hate of mine: the JVM /does/ "know the concept of a
pointer". You can hardly move in the JVM without using pointers, since
they're the only way of handling arrays or instances of class types.


What the JVM lacks is a notion of /pointer arithmetic/.


[It's handy to use `reference` to mean `pointer without
  arithmetic opportunities`, but then C++ uses it for
  something else, not unrelated, again ...]


--
Chris "don't start me on the Razor" Dollin
Meaning precedes definition.

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