i guess nowadays javac translates almost literally the source code
into bytecode, leaving the hard work for JIT
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Christian
Catchpole<christ...@catchpole.net> wrote:
>
> of course it's need a return if it's NOT being JITted... im talking a
> load of crap tonight.. aload_0 f crap.. get it! :)
>
> On Aug 26, 8:09 pm, Christian Catchpole <christ...@catchpole.net>
> wrote:
>> yeah, don't take too much notice of that. i noticed that if you
>> disassemble a "throw", it doesn't have a return. but the a=a does.
>> maybe its requirement of bytecode that a method that does return,
>> finishes with return byte code. but its like Java strings being a
>> char array with a size. there's no need to terminate it. it cant run
>> off the end.
>>
>> On Aug 26, 7:53 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Christian Catchpole wrote:
>> > > Compile this.. (any package you like, or no package at all)
>>
>> > > public class Rethrow {
>> > > public static void unchecked(Throwable t) {
>> > > t=t;
>> > > }
>> > > }
>>
>> > > javap reports the byte code as..
>>
>> > > public static void unchecked(java.lang.Throwable);
>> > > Code:
>> > > Stack=1, Locals=1, Args_size=1
>> > > 0: aload_0
>> > > 1: astore_0
>> > > 2: return
>>
>> > I'm surprised - I expected that the compiler would optimize out the
>> > useless operation and only output the return...
>>
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> >
>
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