Looking to write a new Bytecode back-end (Gen) for microcontroller VM

Dalibor Topic Dalibor.Topic at Sun.COM
Wed Jul 9 04:46:40 PDT 2008


Niels Brouwers wrote:
> I've been hacking the compiler a bit today, but found it extremely
> difficult to extend or change the behavior of Javac in a non-intrusive
> way. I would basically like to re-use all of Javac, and simply drop in
> my own bytecode generator visitor.
>   
Hi Niels,

it may be more convenient to write a java bytecode to Gen translator - 
that way you wouldn't
require that all the code you want to use in your VM needs to be built 
with your compiler.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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