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$Id: TODO.JustIce 152844 2003-01-28 18:03:18Z enver $
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"TODO" list for JustIce, the Java Class File Verifier by Enver Haase.
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- JustIce uses object generalization during pass 3b, as supposed by
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Sun. However, there are better methods such as the idea proposed by
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Staerk et al.: using sets of object types. JustIce may reject code
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that is not rejected by traditional JVM-internal verifiers for this
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reason. The corresponding checks all have some "TODO" tag with an
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explanation; they're all in the 'InstConstraintVisitor.java' file.
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Users encountering problems should simply comment them out (or
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uncomment them) as they like. The default is some setting that works
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well when using
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$ java org.apache.bcel.verifier.TransitiveHull java.lang.String
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meaning there are no rejects caused by the above problem in a lot of
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usual classes.
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- There are a few bugs concerning access rights of referenced methods
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and probably fields. The tests for access rights that Sun defines
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should happen in pass four (which JustIce performs during pass 3a) are
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unintentionally omitted. This also happened to Sun and IBM with some
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of their version 1.3 JVMs. Thanks Markus Dahm.
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- There are bugs because of an ambiguity in the Java Virtual Machine
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Specification, Second Edition. These have to do with inheritance: A
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method invocation like MyObject::equals(Object) is considered illegal,
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if MyObject has no overriding definition of equals(Object). Sun
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clarified this issue via electronic mail: the invocation is legal,
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because MyObject inherits the member function equals(Object) from
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Object::equals(Object). The search algorithms don't seem to be trivial
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because interfaces can not only specify methods, but also declare
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fields. Also, access modifiers have to be honoured (see above).
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- It is not verified if classes that propose they would implement an
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interface _really_ implement all the methods.
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- It is not verified that interfaces are actually tagged 'abstract'.
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- The InstructionContext.getSuccessors() method may return the same
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successor more than one time. For performance reasons the ControlFlow-
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Graph.InstructionContextImpl class should return an array where the
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successors are pairwise disjoint. It should also be cached so that we
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don't have to do this calculation every time.
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***End of File***
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