A formal framework for the Java bytecode language and verifier

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 147-166

  Freund, Stephen N ^a   Mitchell, John C ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

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EID: 17144431841     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/320385.320397     Document Type: Article

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