[Ibija-devel] status of the native IbjClassFile progress.

[Dodji Seketeli]

tatata !!

The IbjClassFile "load" method can now load the small Hello test program
of the distro.
I still have to code a lot on it, but you can see the damn thing working 
in a debugger right now. You just have to debug the ibijap binary to see 
the IbjClassFile working.

My very short term goal is to write an almost-feature-full javap clone 
called ibijap. Go to 
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/tooldocs/solaris/javap.html to 
see what javap is.

ibijap will be a wonderfull testbed for the class loading process. Once 
we can load a class properly, we can dig into how to resolve it 
references and how to interpret it ... so let's focus on loading it !

I have now to write some other methods of the IbjClassFile class such as
"delete" and also a reporter to dump human readable info about what's in
the binary class file.

I think some of you could write a "IbjClassFileVerifier" (IbjCFVerifier 
in short) that could perform at least the first past verification 
required by the jvm spec in chapter 4.9 .


Happy hacking.

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