Check the validity of a .class file

Christian Thalinger twisti at complang.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Nov 21 00:18:15 PST 2008


On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 17:14 -0500, Keith McGuigan wrote:
> Well, verification in the JVM occurs as part of the loading, so the 
> bytecode actually is statically examined.  It doesn't have to run, the 
> verifier is kicked off at link time, not run time.  This means you 

Really?  HotSpot verifies all methods during link time not during
compile time (well, first interpreter invocation)?

- Christian




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