Re: java and goto instuction! amazing!

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From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:12

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"Amir Pashazadeh" <pasha@abdnet.com> writes:

> I decompiled a class file (using 3 different decompilers for
> accurancy), and every time I got the same source code, there is
> something amazing in it, it has "goto" instruction! how can it be?

Because VM instruction set is not the same as Java language keywords.

> does JVM (as executor) supports "goto" instruction, but no standard
> compiler supports it yet? so a custom compiler can use it?

The VM uses "goto" to jump around in the same sense x86 uses "jmp".
You need to have some sort of jumping instruction.

The "gotos" come from java-the-language loops (for, while) and sundry
others (break, continue).

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