[fpc-devel] FPC-JVM: Status report on Android

[Michael Schnell]

On 08/29/2011 01:09 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> JIT compilers for Java byte code have existed for over a decade now. 
> They also map the Java stack machine to register-based architectures.
Of course they do.

Seemingly the Dalvik "to-dex-converter" is supposed to do some static 
pre-processor work on that behalf. Otherwise it would not make any sense 
to allow for defining registers in the virtual processor's instructions.

-Michael