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I bought the JVM Specification book some years ago. It was fun holiday reading (seriously) seeing how they bytecode was put together, how try-catch blocks reall

I bought the JVM Specification book some years ago. It was fun holiday reading (seriously) seeing how they bytecode was put together, how try-catch blocks really work etc. It's quite readable as general interest, if you're into that kind of thing. I don't think it's ever been much actual use to me in programming, but was nice-to-have background knowledge.

bArray 6y ago
You mean like this book? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/jvms8.pdf https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/jvms8.pdf I'm very tempted to pick a hard copy up!
- pjmlp 6y ago
  I would advise the up to date version though. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se14/html/ https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se14/html/
  - elric 6y ago
    Can't seem to find a dead-tree version of this one :-(
    - pjmlp 6y ago
      I see, yes, that might be an issue.
    - bArray 6y ago
      Yeah, I'm quite interested in having a dead tree version to read. I guess I could send the PDF off to a book maker - not entirely sure of the legalities though...
- afandian 6y ago
  Yes, you can get it in dead-tree.