Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070234286
Filing Date: May 25, 2006Priority Date: March 28, 2006
Inventors: Bo Huang, Jiangning Liu, Lei Gao
Assignee: Intel
Current U.S. Classification: 717, 717/114000, 717/118000
View Prior Art for Claim 00019
A method comprising:
locating in a byte code image an annotation record for a function having a parameter to be passed;
determining if the parameter is passed as a pointer based on a value representative of a size of the parameter contained in the annotation record; and
if the parameter is passed as the pointer, copying data pointed to by the pointer to a byte code stack.
Patent/Application # WO05091772
Description
The invention comprises a method and system for annotating a Java application file or ground Java application file to insert compiler hinting information such that a just-in-time compiler in a target environment preferentially compiles byte-code within the Java application file.
