I was tasked to make a method that calculates the magnitude of a given vector and then used javap -c
to break it down.
Now I must show what each local variable in the magnitude frame corresponds to in the java, and which lines of bytecode correspond to what.
Here is the method I made:
public class Vector {
/** Magnitude of vector
* Calculates the magnitude of the vector corresponding
* to the array a.
*
* @return magnitude
*/
public double magnitude(double[] a){
int n = a.length;
double sum = 1;
for (int i=0; i<n; i++){
sum = sum*a[i];
}
double magnitude = Math.sqrt(sum);
return magnitude;
}
}
here is the result of using javap -c
:
public class Vector {
public Vector();
Code:
0: aload_0
1: invokespecial #1 // Method java/lang/Object."<init>":()V
4: return
public double magnitude(double[]);
Code:
0: aload_1
1: arraylength
2: istore_2
3: dconst_1
4: dstore_3
5: iconst_0
6: istore 5
8: iload 5
10: iload_2
11: if_icmpge 27
14: dload_3
15: aload_1
16: iload 5
18: daload
19: dmul
20: dstore_3
21: iinc 5, 1
24: goto 8
27: dload_3
28: invokestatic #2 // Method java/lang/Math.sqrt:(D)D
31: dstore 5
33: dload 5
35: dreturn
}
Run
javap
with the-l
flag:For example, you can see that instructions 3 & 4 correspond to line 14, where
1
is loaded into adouble
at index 2.