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Ah, I see! It was the way the software did math that was patented. ...nt | 380 comments | Create New Account
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 10:56 AM EDT
I read your example:
What was variable has become static.
as meaning that the memory location, found by resolving the symbol Y, contains a constant rather than variable value.

We know that dexopt resolves Y to a numeric offset in memory where the value of Y will reside.

Does dexopt actually calculate the final value 51, store it, calculate it's numeric offset, substitute the numeric offset in the dalvik bytecode anywhere that the symbol Y was found in the Java bytecode and then delete (by not copying) that unique computation of the value of 51 from the Dalvik bytecode?

Does dexopt check for uniqueness of the values 3 and 17 and, if used only in that unique computation, that is, to calculate the constant 51, does it then delete (by not copying) the values 3, 17 and their numeric offsets?

Or have I misunderstood what you're saying? JWC

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Ah, I see! It was the way the software did math that was patented. ...nt
Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, May 25 2012 @ 05:43 AM EDT
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Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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