Program analysis for safety guarantees in a Java virtual machine written in Java

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Program analysis for safety guarantees in a Java virtual machine written in Java

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Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering archive
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering table of contents

Snowbird, Utah, United States

Pages: 62 - 65

Year of Publication: 2001

ISBN:1-58113-413-4

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Jan-Willem Maessen	MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Vivek Sarkar	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
David Grove	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we report on our experiences with guaranteeing GC-pointer safety when using unsafe low-level language extensions to implement a JVM in Java. We give an overview of the original unsafe language extensions that were defined for use by Jalapeño implementers, and introduce sanitized replacements that capture common idioms while also guaranteeing GC-pointer safety. We also outline some simple static and dynamic checks for correct usage of low-level operations, and examine how code containing low-level operations can be optimized correctly and effectively.

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