Re: Re: Detecting finally blocks?

Scott Vachalek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.objectweb.asm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Good point, I guess Jonathan will have to answer that.  I was thinking he
was looking just for the catch-all but reading it again, it does look like a
broader question and you are right - you'd nearly have to implement a full
decompiler to be able to find the finally blocks.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Godmar Back <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Ok - but does this address Jonathan's problem? I'd assume he's interested
> in whenever the finally { } code is executed, not just in an exception
> handler (that is, also when it's executed during a regular return.) He could
> identify the code in the catch-all handler, then search for it elsewhere -
> but it may not look exactly the same. Perhaps I misunderstood his question.
>
>  - Godmar
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Scott Vachalek <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> True... I always think of those as finally blocks, but I guess technically
>> they are not.  If you want to ignore them they should be pretty easy to
>> identify.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Godmar Back <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Scott Vachalek <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> it's not something you can rely upon entirely.  But I've never seen a
>>>> null catch generated by javac for any other reason.  The contents of the
>>>> handler (save exception, repeat finally code, throw saved exception) are
>>>> also very predictable.
>>>
>>>
>>> It's also used for synchronized (obj) { } blocks where a monitorexit is
>>> required.
>>>
>>>  - Godmar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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