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Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 11:42 AM EDT |
Oracle made the point that the jury had been taken deep into byte code.
Patent '104 uses the phrase 'a processor configured to execute said instructions
containing one or more symbolic references '.
That, to me, shouts 'machine code running on a virtual processor'. Resolving of
symbolic references is only at issue if it is the virtual processor that is
doing it. Google agrees that Dalvik looks up all sorts of things including
method names by using simulated execution.
Dalvik byte code does not contain any symbolic references. All the Dalvik
machine code instructions are in fixed length numeric values, just like a
hardware processor.
The Dalvik processor is incapable of executing 'instructions containing one or
more symbolic references'.
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Regards
Ian Al
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