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Dan Bornstein commented on DERBY-4458:
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Hi. I'm the Dalvik engineer referred to above. In fact, I believe the bytecode
spec changed between 1.4 and 1.5. dx's warning is basically saying that
1.4-based code that uses inner classes doesn't provide enough information for a
1.5 runtime to faithfully report about them via reflection. Rather than try to
halfway reconstruct the reflection info in such cases, dx just gives up and
ignores inner classes info entirely. If your code doesn't make reflection calls
to look at inner class stuff, then none of this makes any difference.
Also, if dx is running out of memory, you can tell it to have a larger maximum
heap size by using a passthrough option for the underlying vm that runs dx,
e.g. "dx -JXmx2048m ...".
Also also, while the Dalvik vm doesn't read .class files directly, you can in
fact synthesize .dex files and use them, in a similar manner. I have seen a
proof of concept where someone generated .class files, ran them through dx
(treated as a library), and then loaded the result. It works, but it is
admittedly not pretty, especially since the dx code isn't particularly geared
for use in a memory-constrained environment (see above). In the long run, you'd
be better off generating .dex files more directly, but it might at least
unblock you.
Cheers!
-dan
> Dalvik / Andoid compatibility
> -----------------------------
>
> Key: DERBY-4458
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4458
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 10.5.3.0
> Environment: dx 1.2 (from the Android SDK 2.0) running on Java 1.6
> Reporter: Thomas Görres
> Priority: Blocker
>
> derby.jar cannot be used on mobile devices running the Android OS. Android
> uses Dalvik as runtime environment, and the classfiles from derby.jar cannot
> be translated to Dalvik byte code.
> Steps to repeat:
> 1. get the Android SDK from http://developer.android.com
> 2. navigate to [android-sdk]/platforms/android-1.5/tools
> 3. execute ./dx --dex path/to/derby.jar
> The dx tool should convert the JRE byte code to Dalvik byte code. Instead, it
> spits out this warning several time:
> warning: Ignoring InnerClasses attribute for an anonymous inner class that
> doesn't come with an associated EnclosingMethod attribute. (This class was
> probably produced by a broken compiler.)
> Then it runs out of memory:
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
> at
> com.android.dx.rop.code.ThrowingInsn.withNewRegisters(ThrowingInsn.java:116)
> at com.android.dx.ssa.NormalSsaInsn.toRopInsn(NormalSsaInsn.java:122)
> at com.android.dx.ssa.back.SsaToRop.convertInsns(SsaToRop.java:386)
> at com.android.dx.ssa.back.SsaToRop.convertBasicBlock(SsaToRop.java:365)
> at
> com.android.dx.ssa.back.SsaToRop.convertBasicBlocks(SsaToRop.java:300)
> at com.android.dx.ssa.back.SsaToRop.convertToRop(SsaToRop.java:277)
> at com.android.dx.ssa.back.SsaToRop.convert(SsaToRop.java:118)
> at com.android.dx.ssa.back.SsaToRop.convertToRopMethod(SsaToRop.java:71)
> at com.android.dx.ssa.Optimizer.optimize(Optimizer.java:103)
> at com.android.dx.ssa.Optimizer.optimize(Optimizer.java:74)
> at
> com.android.dx.dex.cf.CfTranslator.processMethods(CfTranslator.java:269)
> at com.android.dx.dex.cf.CfTranslator.translate0(CfTranslator.java:131)
> at com.android.dx.dex.cf.CfTranslator.translate(CfTranslator.java:85)
> at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processClass(Main.java:297)
> at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processFileBytes(Main.java:276)
> at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.access$100(Main.java:56)
> at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main$1.processFileBytes(Main.java:228)
> at
> com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processArchive(ClassPathOpener.java:245)
> at
> com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processOne(ClassPathOpener.java:130)
> at
> com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.process(ClassPathOpener.java:108)
> at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processOne(Main.java:245)
> at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processAllFiles(Main.java:183)
> at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:139)
> at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:120)
> at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:87)
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