Re: Using ASM for invokedynamic bytecode generation

Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Sep 2011 14:35:12 +0300

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Hi Mark,

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Mark Wielaard <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know much about what is needed for invoke dynamic byte code
> generation. Note that java/lang/reflect/Proxy.java for example also can
> generate byte code, but just does it by hand. Is such an approach
> possible?

It's possible, sure. I was thinking of using ASM because I suspect the
generated bytecode won't be trivial. I'll see how quickly I hit limitations
with generating bytecode by hand. Is a light-weight GNU Classpath
specific bytecode helper API totally out of the question?

                        Pekka