Re: Generating Java Bytecode

torhr@storm.stud.ntnu.no (Tor H. Ringstad)
21 Nov 1996 23:09:11 -0500

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From: torhr@storm.stud.ntnu.no (Tor H. Ringstad)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 21 Nov 1996 23:09:11 -0500
Organization: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
References: 96-11-108 96-11-125
Keywords: Java

Bill Purvis <w.purvis@daresbury.ac.uk> writes:


> The Java VM does support the basic things you need for C's pointer
> rules - it's the Java Compiler that excludes them.


Could you elaborate on this? The only kind of `pointers' that is supported
by Java are refererences to objects. There is not much (if anything) JVM
bytecode can do to them that a Java program also can`t do.




- Tor Ringstad -
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