[Soot-list] queries on threads

[Patrick LAM]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Arnab De wrote:

> can anybody tell me what is the actual semantics of specialinvoke?

See the Java Virtual Machine Specification.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/Instructions2.doc6.html

> The difference between the invokespecial and the invokevirtual
> instructions is that invokevirtual invokes a method based on the class
> of the object. The invokespecial instruction is used to invoke instance
> initialization methods (3.9) as well as private methods and methods of a
> superclass of the current class.

pat