From: rop rop Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 00:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 11 Message-ID: <343576af-d714-462c-b96f-688bc6dfb0e2@e21g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> References: <015aeb15-57db-48ab-9cd4-77f8448b632f@w24g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.121.232.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1310023809 22208 127.0.0.1 (7 Jul 2011 07:30:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 07:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e21g2000vbz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.121.232.7; posting-account=IA2bLQoAAAAIc9GoLgyNFZEW8b4BVbG- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 localhost.localdomain[A4873129] X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ARLUEHCV X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB7.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!postnews.google.com!e21g2000vbz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5958 On Jul 6, 11:32=A0pm, Tom Anderson wrote: > Modding the JVM is a non-starter for a few reasons... Hi Tom, Thanks for input. Could you just elaborate on this, please... what is the main-problem with actually patching the JVM? Why is it so hard? Without having looked into the source-code, this seems like the most straight-forward and robust way to do it... Is the code so hard to penetrate or what?