May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
11h 26m
English
book
The Java® Virtual Machine Specification, Java SE 8 Edition
by Tim Lindholm, Frank Yellin, Gilad Bracha, Alex Buckley
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Index
A
a bit of history, 1
stack map frame representation, 180
abrupt method invocation completion, 18
Exceptions, 24
invokedynamic, 471
synchronization, 67
access control, 351
class and interface resolution, 343
field resolution, 343
interface method resolution, 347
method resolution, 345
type checking for protected members, 196
accessing the run-time constant pool, 46
accessors for Java Virtual Machine artifacts, 169
type checking instructions, 199
verification by type checking, 169
actual and computational types in the Java
Virtual Machine, 29
types and the Java Virtual Machine, 29, 29
aload, 367
astore, 372
wide, 557
aload, aload_<n>, 204
aload_<n>, 368
astore_<n>, 373
anewarray, ...
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