DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.
03:07
Now that I am awake, work continues. Must annotate and informationize the remaining opcodes so that I can begin writing descriptor information along with actual byte code parsing.
06:10
I need a better design on my LogicalClass and LogicalMethod code. Byte code descriptions of a method just rely on the descriptor.
06:26
I need to actually recreate any classes which are enums to not sort those constants because if enumerations are switched around then static code that relies on the ordinal order (such as switch) will break completely between virtual machines, ouch. There are only 93 enumerated types in the standard library however.
06:41
Actually I do not have to worry about that, because using an enum switch creates a new class which handles potential out of orders by statically referring to the elements there.
07:02
My logical class work needs to change to a factory like system and the ClassFile locks need to change to the self object rather than an internal lock because ClassFiles are operated on. The class cannot change while the logical information is being constructed.
09:51
I also do not like the LogicalClass, LogicalMethod, and LogicalField classes, they should just be a single LogicalClass. Thought about reflection permission checking, but all that is would be a simple access modifier check based on the source call performing invoke. I do know that in my method tables I will need to handle reflective call site stuff. Basically each class has its own method tables which are mostly static, but the last entries will be when static methods use reflection on a class or similar. Non static methods in classes doing such things will then add it to the local field table in a hidden manner. One thing my code generator must do it make it so the classes inside reflect the same as initialization time as they do during run-time. This means that calls such as Class.forName() or Method.invoke() will just be transformed into call sites with potential cache (if applicable). So similar to my plan for boxed types being simple, stuff like Method and Fields will be very basic pointer-ish types. So if any code is detected which appears to just do the invoke call on a Method will use a special bridge-like method that is only internally visible at static compilation time which checks access control and then invokes. The only real access control there is is the normal private, package private, protected, and public. There would be two tiers though, one for in same package and one outside of same package. But I need to work on merging the Logicals into a single class, and make it a factory that locks on a ClassFile instead of going crazy.