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Re: source code of a java app?



On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:55:49PM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > I say simple, but then, I didn't write the decompiler. :)

(Actually I didn't write that ...)

> > Note that, IIRC, the Java .class format doesn't store the names of local
> > variables in methods, so you lose a good deal of intelligibility during
> > the decompilation process.
> 
> They actually /can/ be, given the right compiler flags, but obviously the
> JVM doesn't care either way.  It's useful to have them when debugging
> though.

Oh, cool. What options? This machine only has gcj, whose man page
doesn't seem to list anything relevant.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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