I wish. The last was 2 weeks business. This time, it's 1 week's EclipseCon, 1 week's holiday, and I doubt I'm doing much in either of those.
Alex. On 02/03/07, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Feb 27, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Alex Blewitt wrote: > On 20/02/07, Alex Blewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Good news everyone, >> >> I've just managed to decode a class file with its constituent >> bytecode >> out to a Jar. There's a few bugs (it doesn't calculate the max stack) >> and the byteccode is replaced with 'return' -- but that's only >> because >> pack200 does some extra mangling on the bytecode (e.g. 'super()' is >> normally 2 bytes, but it's so common that there's a special 1 byte >> marker for it). > > I've addressed this issue, and I can now generate a subset of the > bytecode (e.g. getstatic/putstatic/invokevirtual/areturn etc.) from an > input pack file into an output Jar. There's still the tricky problem > of the arguments; essentially, each argument type (e.g. methodref, > classref, constant pool) is encoded in their own separate set of bands > which I've yet to decode/overlay). > > So, whilst the EclipseCon deadline of a 'hello world' isn't that far > off, it's only going to work with a particular special set of bytecode > (though I should be able to change the message and re-run it to show > it's not a pre-recorded demo). But I want to set everyone's > expectations suitably low, because although I may have reached the > peak of the complexity, I've still got to come down the other side and > pick up all the remnants that are yet to be done. I don't see a full > implementation any time soon -- and I've been off for about a week > recently too. > Cool stuff. > Whilst I'm at EclipseCon with the wireless, I'll spend some spare time > creating/submitting a patch for the work that's done so far. I'll then > be off for a holiday and will pick up the trail again towards the end > of March ... What, you take one vacation a month? I wish I lived in the UK :) geir > > Alex.
