Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Linux for JavaVM | | Date | Sat, 18 Jan 1997 12:13:57 +0000 | | From | Simon Kenyon <> |
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> Yes: you are wrong. The bytecode does NOT support such C features as > "dereference an arbitrary pointer". The Java VM is supposed to afford a > safe, "boxed", environment for arbitrary Java code snippets. You can't do > that if you would ever allow the bytecode equivalent of perfectly-legal C > code such as "*(char *)0x123456 = 0x78" to run. >
javasoft extended the JVM for excatly this reason it is perfectly possible to write most of an OS in Java that is what JavaOS is
anybody thought of using Linux as the basis for a JavaOS clone? i know i have -- simon
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