Java虚拟机规范（Java SE 8版）英文版

内容概要

Tim Lindholm曾是Sun公司杰出工程师。他Java虚拟机高级架构师，Java编程语言的主要贡献者之一，目前主要负责移动设备上的Java应用。在到Sun公司工作之前，他曾经在美国阿贡国家实验室和Quintus公司从事与虚拟机和运行时系统相关的工作。他拥有卡尔顿学院数学学士学位。

Frank Yellin曾是Sun公司高级工程师。他是Java项目元老级成员。近十余年中，他都从事着解释型及编译型语言的运行时系统方面的工作。在到Sun公司工作之前，他在Lucid公司从事Common Lisp编译器相关的工作。他拥有哈佛大学应用数学学士学位及斯坦福大学计算机科学硕士学位。

Gilad Bracha是Newspeak编程语言的创建者，曾是Sun公司杰出工程师。在到Sun公司工作之前，他在Animorphic Smalltalk System公司从事Strongtalk语言相关的工作。他拥有犹他大学计算机科学博士学位。

Alex Buckley是Oracle公司Java编程语言和Java虚拟机规范负责人。他拥有伦敦帝国学院计算机技术博士学位。

书籍目录

目录

前言

1 Introduction

1.1 A Bit of History

1.2 The Java Virtual Machine

1.3 Organization of the Specification

1.4 Notation

1.5 Feedback

2 The Structure of the Java Virtual Machine

2.1 The  class File Format

2.2 Data Types

2.3 Primitive Types and Values

2.3.1 Integral Types and Values

2.3.2 Floating-Point Types, Value Sets, and Values

2.3.3 The  returnAddress Type and Values

2.3.4 The  boolean Type

2.4 Reference Types and Values

2.5 Run-Time Data Areas

2.5.1 The  pc Register

2.5.2 Java Virtual Machine Stacks

2.5.3 Heap

2.5.4 Method Area

2.5.5 Run-Time Constant Pool

2.5.6 Native Method Stacks

2.6 Frames

2.6.1 Local Variables

2.6.2 Operand Stacks

2.6.3 Dynamic Linking

2.6.4 Normal Method Invocation Completion

2.6.5 Abrupt Method Invocation Completion

2.7 Representation of Objects

2.8 Floating-Point Arithmetic

2.8.1 Java Virtual Machine Floating-Point Arithmetic and IEEE 754

2.8.2 Floating-Point Modes

2.8.3 Value Set Conversion

2.9 Special Methods

2.10 Exceptions

2.11 Instruction Set Summary

2.11.1 Types and the Java Virtual Machine

2.11.2 Load and Store Instructions

2.11.3 Arithmetic Instructions

2.11.4 Type Conversion Instructions

2.11.5 Object Creation and Manipulation

2.11.6 Operand Stack Management Instructions

2.11.7 Control Transfer Instructions

2.11.8 Method Invocation and Return Instructions

2.11.9 Throwing Exceptions

2.11.10 Synchronization

2.12 Class Libraries

2.13 Public Design, Private Implementation

3 Compiling for the Java Virtual Machine

3.1 Format of Examples

3.2 Use of Constants, Local Variables, and Control Constructs

3.3 Arithmetic

3.4 Accessing the Run-Time Constant Pool

3.5 More Control Examples

3.6 Receiving Arguments

3.7 Invoking Methods

3.8 Working with Class Instances

3.9 Arrays

3.10 Compiling Switches

3.11 Operations on the Operand Stack

3.12 Throwing and Handling Exceptions

3.13 Compiling finally

3.14 Synchronization

3.15 Annotations

4 The class File Format

4.1 The ClassFile Structure

4.2 The Internal Form of Names

4.2.1 Binary Class and Interface Names

4.2.2 Unqualified Names

4.3 Descriptors

4.3.1 Grammar Notation

4.3.2 Field Descriptors

4.3.3 Method Descriptors

4.4 The Constant Pool

4.4.1 The CONSTANT_Class_info Structure

4.4.2 The CONSTANT_Fieldref_info, CONSTANT_Methodref_info, and CONSTANT_InterfaceMethodref_info Structures

4.4.3 The CONSTANT_String_info Structure

4.4.4 The CONSTANT_Integer_info and CONSTANT_Float_info Structures

4.4.5 The CONSTANT_Long_info and CONSTANT_Double_info Structures

4.4.6 The CONSTANT_NameAndType_info Structure

4.4.7 The CONSTANT_Utf8_info Structure

4.4.8 The CONSTANT_MethodHandle_info Structure

4.4.9 The CONSTANT_MethodType_info Structure

4.4.10 The CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic_info Structure

4.5 Fields

4.6 Methods

4.7 Attributes

4.7.1 Defining and Naming New Attributes

4.7.2 The ConstantValue Attribute

4.7.3 The Code Attribute

4.7.4 The StackMapTable Attribute

4.7.5 The Exceptions Attribute

4.7.6 The InnerClasses Attribute

4.7.7 The EnclosingMethod Attribute

4.7.8 The Synthetic Attribute

4.7.9 The Signature Attribute

4.7.9.1 Signatures

4.7.10 The SourceFile Attribute

4.7.11 The SourceDebugExtension Attribute

4.7.12 The LineNumberTable Attribute

4.7.13 The LocalVariableTable Attribute

4.7.14 The LocalVariableTypeTable Attribute

4.7.15 The Deprecated Attribute

4.7.16 The RuntimeVisibleAnnotations Attribute

4.7.16.1 The element_value structure

4.7.17 The RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations Attribute

4.7.18 The RuntimeVisibleParameterAnnotations Attribute

4.7.19 The RuntimeInvisibleParameterAnnotations Attribute

4.7.20 The RuntimeVisibleTypeAnnotations Attribute

4.7.20.1 The target_info union

4.7.20.2 The type_path structure

4.7.21 The RuntimeInvisibleTypeAnnotations Attribute

4.7.22 The AnnotationDefault Attribute

4.7.23 The BootstrapMethods Attribute

4.7.24 The MethodParameters Attribute

4.8 Format Checking

4.9 Constraints on Java Virtual Machine Code

4.9.1 Static Constraints

4.9.2 Structural Constraints

4.10 Verification of class Files

4.10.1 Verification by Type Checking

4.10.1.1 Accessors for Java Virtual Machine Artifacts

4.10.1.2 Verification Type System

4.10.1.3 Instruction Representation

4.10.1.4 Stack Map Frame Representation

4.10.1.5 Type Checking Abstract and Native Methods

4.10.1.6 Type Checking Methods with Code

4.10.1.7 Type Checking Load and Store Instructions

4.10.1.8 Type Checking for protected Members

4.10.1.9 Type Checking Instructions

4.10.2 Verification by Type Inference

4.10.2.1 The Process of Verification by Type Inference

4.10.2.2 The Bytecode Verifier

4.10.2.3 Values of Types long and double

4.10.2.4 Instance Initialization Methods and Newly Created Objects

4.10.2.5 Exceptions and finally

4.11 Limitations of the Java Virtual Machine

5 Loading, Linking, and Initializing

5.1 The Run-Time Constant Pool

5.2 Java Virtual Machine Startup

5.3 Creation and Loading

5.3.1 Loading Using the Bootstrap Class Loader

5.3.2 Loading Using a User-defined Class Loader

5.3.3 Creating Array Classes

5.3.4 Loading Constraints

5.3.5 Deriving a Class from a class File Representation

5.4 Linking

5.4.1 Verification

5.4.2 Preparation

5.4.3 Resolution

5.4.3.1 Class and Interface Resolution

5.4.3.2 Field Resolution

5.4.3.3 Method Resolution

5.4.3.4 Interface Method Resolution

5.4.3.5 Method Type and Method Handle Resolution

5.4.3.6 Call Site Specifier Resolution

5.4.4 Access Control

5.4.5 Overriding

5.5 Initialization

5.6 Binding Native Method Implementations

5.7 Java Virtual Machine Exit

6 The Java Virtual Machine Instruction Set

6.1 Assumptions: The Meaning of "Must"

6.2 Reserved Opcodes

6.3 Virtual Machine Errors

6.4 Format of Instruction Descriptions

mnemonic

6.5 Instructions

aaload

aastore

aconst_null

aload

aload_

anewarray

areturn

arraylength

astore

astore_

athrow

baload

bastore

bipush

caload

castore

checkcast

d2f

d2i

d2l

dadd

daload

dastore

dcmp

dconst_

ddiv

dload

dload_

dmul

dneg

drem

dreturn

dstore

dstore_

dsub

dup

dup_x1

dup_x2

dup2

dup2_x1

dup2_x2

f2d

f2i

f2l

fadd

faload

fastore

fcmp

fconst_

fdiv

fload

fload_

fmul

fneg

frem

freturn

fstore

fstore_

fsub

getfield

getstatic

goto

goto_w

i2b

i2c

i2d

i2f

i2l

i2s

iadd

iaload

iand

iastore

iconst_

idiv

if_acmp

if_icmp

if

ifnonnull

ifnull

iinc

iload

iload_

imul

ineg

instanceof

invokedynamic

invokeinterface

invokespecial

invokestatic

invokevirtual

ior

irem

ireturn

ishl

ishr

istore

istore_

isub

iushr

ixor

jsr

jsr_w

l2d

l2f

l2i

ladd

laload

land

lastore

lcmp

lconst_

ldc

ldc_w

ldc2_w

ldiv

lload

lload_

lmul

lneg

lookupswitch

lor

lrem

lreturn

lshl

lshr

lstore

lstore_

lsub

lushr

lxor

monitorenter

monitorexit

multianewarray

new

newarray

nop

pop

pop2

putfield

putstatic

ret

return

saload

sastore

sipush

swap

tableswitch

wide

7 Opcode Mnemonics by Opcode

Index

A Limited License Grant

《Java虚拟机规范（Java SE 8版）英文版》由Java虚拟机技术创建人撰写。《Java虚拟机规范（Java SE 8版）英文版》全面而准确地阐释了Java虚拟机各方面的细节，围绕Java虚拟机整体架构、编译器、class文件格式、加载、链接与初始化、指令集等核心主题对Java虚拟机进行全面而深入的分析，深刻揭示Java虚拟机的工作原理。《Java虚拟机规范（Java SE 8版）英文版》中完整地讲述了由Java SE 8所引入的新特性，例如对包含默认实现代码的接口方法所做的调用，以及为支持类型注解及方法参数注解而对class文件格式所做的扩展等，还阐明了class文件中各属性的含义及字节码验证的规则。

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