Monday, July 29, 2002

I found an interesting paper on jsr/ret verification. It contains the following example of valid Java code that is not verifiable with the verification algorithm described in the JVM spec:

static int m(boolean x) {
  int y;
  try {
    if(x) return 1;
    y = 2;
  } finally {
    if(x) y = 3;
  }
  return y;
}
7/29/2002 6:12:48 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [0]
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