11:20
The attributes which are not included in Java ME are:
The Synthetic attribute (JVMS ??4.7.8)
The Signature attribute (JVMS ??4.7.9)
The SourceFile attribute (JVMS ??4.7.10)
The SourceDebugExtension attribute (JVMS ??4.7.11)
The LineNumberTable attribute (JVMS ??4.7.12)
The LocalVariableTable attribute (JVMS ??4.7.13)
The LocalVariableTypeTable attribute (JVMS ??4.7.14)
The Deprecated attribute (JVMS ??4.7.15)
The RuntimeVisibleAnnotations attribute (JVMS ??4.7.16)
The RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations attribute (JVMS ??4.7.17)
The RuntimeVisibleParameterAnnotations attribute (JVMS ??4.7.18)
The RuntimeInvisibleParameterAnnotations attribute (JVMS ??4.7.19)
The AnnotationDefault attribute (JVMS ??4.7.20)
The BootstrapMethod attribute (JVMS ??4.7.21)
And this is a list of every attribute, with ones not cared about marked:
--- Listed above.
+++ Not listed above, but should be gone due to lack of reflection.
*** Not needed at the VM level, but needed by Java compilers.
SourceFile---***
InnerClasses+++***
EnclosingMethod+++***
SourceDebugExtension---
BootstrapMethods---
ConstantValue
Code
Exceptions***
RuntimeVisibleParameterAnnotations---***
RuntimeInvisibleParameterAnnotations---***
AnnotationDefault---
MethodParameters+++***
Synthetic---
Deprecated---***
Signature---***
RuntimeVisibleAnnotations---***
RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations---***
LineNumberTable---
LocalVariableTable---
LocalVariableTypeTable---
StackMapTable
RuntimeVisibleTypeAnnotations+++***
RuntimeInvisibleTypeAnnotations+++***
So with all of the removals I only need to consider the following:
ConstantValue
Code
StackMapTable
StackMap (for older J2ME code, similar to StackMapTable)
Which simplifies things greatly. I should however include some kind of debug information with the line number table at least, so if exceptions are thrown it can be determined where they are. The line number table would probably be in an external map file if it is not feasible to include it.
11:35
I should also note that these 4 annotations, 1 is for fields, 1 is for methods, and 2 are for codes. This means I can pretty much just completely skip parsing annotations in class files because they are just pointless.
14:39
Need to keep an eye out for signature polymorphic signatures. I also believe I
will just not have a flag for invokedynamic override.
14:50
I do wonder how I can have a rather light decoding of fields and methods.
16:17
I suppose to reduce the static consant requirements and such, I will have error codes for exceptions rather than having english derived messages. If you have a small amount of storage space, then you might not want to waste it on descriptive exception messages.
18:29
And I finished translating all the errors, that took about 2 hours to do.
21:02
Made a sub-reddit for this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquirrelJME/. This will be useful for technical support and feature requests and would be a bit more public compared to e-mail.
21:49
One thing that might be best, would be to actually have fields and methods which may be registered to a class.