javac spec?

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 2/21/19 10:22 AM, Vicente Romero wrote:
>>
>> So, I think that, stepping back from this specific issue, we should 
>> try (with the help of the community :-)) to identify the conditions 
>> under which it would be desirable to have a LNT entry, and come up 
>> with some sort of informal javac spec for that.
> +1 


I think this deserves follow-up.

In the past, some javac folk have joked about "The Mythical Compiler 
Spec", which specifies javac behavior, especially as it pertains to 
linking the language specification (JLS) to the VM specification (JVMS).

I'm realistic enough to admit that we'll never have the time and 
resources to sit down and write a full formal spec for javac's code 
translation strategy, nor do I think we would actually want it. But it 
does seem to me that when we deep-dive into specific issues, it would be 
worth writing up the conclusions and putting the write-up somewhere 
where it can easily be found and referred to in the future. (Meaning, 
something better than email and Google-search.)

-- Jon

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