Chapter 3. Compiling for the Java Virtual Machine
The Java Virtual Machine machine is designed to support the Java programming language. Oracle’s JDK software contains a compiler from source code written in the Java programming language to the instruction set of the Java Virtual Machine, and a run-time system that implements the Java Virtual Machine itself. Understanding how one compiler utilizes the Java Virtual Machine is useful to the prospective compiler writer, as well as to one trying to understand the Java Virtual Machine itself. The numbered sections in this chapter are not normative.
Note that the term “compiler” is sometimes used when referring to a translator from the instruction set of a Java Virtual Machine to the instruction set ...
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