Re: Re: Re: Re: InstructionAdapter

Marcin Rzeźnicki wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Eric Bruneton <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Michael Orlov wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>             it seems this class was included in asm 3.2 jar by mistake.
>             This is why
>             it is not in SVN.
> 
> 
>         Why isn't it? Seems quite useful.
> 
> 
>     because I was not sure it was useful. Also it is quite redundant
>     with GeneratorAdapter. But it can be added if users find it useful
> 
> 
> Hi Eric,
> In my opinion it is useful enough to be included. For example I have 
> been writing library providing coroutine support in Java. One of the 
> things I needed to take into account was modifying stack maps around 
> "yield", so I had to know what were types of operands on operand stack. 
> With help of InstructionAdapter I could override methods like 'dup' and 
> simulate its effect on stack without need to write long methods with 
> endless switches. That made my code much more readable (at a little, 
> almost negligible, cost of performance). Also it seems to be quite 
> useful if you need to 'slide' local variables. You just need to override 
> few methods corresponding to instructions which operate on local 
> variable index (like: store/load/iinc) and leave the rest as it is - 
> which also makes your code more readable IMHO. So I, for myself, would 
> really appreciate adding IA back to ASM.

ok, I added this class in SVN

Eric

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