Compilation strategy

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Mon Dec 17 01:45:14 PST 2012


On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 09:37:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/17/2012 12:55 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Assembly is no different than reversing any other type of 
>> bytecode:
>
> This is simply not true for Java bytecode.
>
> About the only thing you lose with Java bytecode are local 
> variable names. Full type information and the variables 
> themselves are intact.
>
> With assembler, you lose all type information for starters. ALL 
> of it. And that's just for starters. You have no idea what 
> 2[EAX] represents.

Pencil and paper?


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