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Re: Disassembler/Assembler?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Thu Jun 15 21:20:17 1995
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 17:59:57 -0700
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: cman@communities.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Douglas,
> Is there already, or is anyone working on a disassembler/
> assembler for Java? That is, something which takes a Java
> .class file, the attached bytecodes, &c., and turns it into
> human-readable form, which could be edited and turned back
> into a .class file.
>
> It seems like the kind of thing that would likely already
> exist within Sun (hint, hint) but would be useful to those
> of us doing research on the security properties of Java
> or to those wanting to write their own compilers.
>
> I have made a running start at this, but it is a formidable
> task and there is no point in duplicated efforts.
Try:
http://java.sun.com/1.0alpha3/doc/man/javap.html
for a way to disassemble the bytecodes. There currently isn't
an assembler.
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff (avh@eng.sun.com)
http://java.sun.com/people/avh/
Sun Microsystems Inc, M/S UPAL02-301,
100 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto CA 94301, USA
Tel: +1 415 473 7242, Fax: +1 415 473 7104
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