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Re: Bytecode generation



On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Stephen Cheng wrote:

> I am attempting to understand how JasminClass generates bytecode from the
> Jimple IR representation of a method. I have been reading the papers
> Sable-paper-2000-1 and sable-paper-1999-1. However it would appear that the
> bytecode generation algorithm has substantially changed since the
> publication of these papers. Sable-paper-2000-1 talks about Baf and Grimp
> approaches, neither of which seems to be implemented in the current version
> of Soot.

I don't believe that bytecode generation has changed at all since the CC
paper.  Bytecode generation proceeds from Jimple through either Baf or
Grimp to Jasmin.

pat