Toward a provably-correct implementation of the JVM bytecode verifier

Proceedings - DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, DISCEX 2000

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 403-410

  Coglio, A ^a   Goldberg, A ^a   Qian, Zhenyu ^a  

^a KESTREL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

BYTECODE VERIFICATION; BYTECODE VERIFIERS; CONSTRAINT SOLVING; EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; SPECWARE;

SPECIFICATIONS;

EID: 84962238721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DISCEX.2000.821537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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