jvm spec class name restrictions

[Jochen Theodorou]

Hi all,

I am looking, but somehow not finding, a complete description of how a
classname of a current class has to be according to the JVM. I am asking
especially because I met a case in which the 2 was tried as class name
and the verification of the class failed (1.8 update 65). And since
something like Foo2 is a valid name I strongly assume 2 is basically a
valid character. Now 2 is not a valid java identifier and such, but does
the class name really have to follow the JLS rules here?

Anyone able to help me with some references in the spec that explain this?

bye Jochen

[Rahul Muttineni]

Hi Jochen,

The JVM specification allows pretty much anything that can be encoded in Modified-UTF8. If you want to run your generated classes directly on the JVM, pretty much any name will do. But if you want the classes that you are generating to be importable from Java via javac, you need to follow the JLS.

For what purpose are you wondering about the naming? We might be able to help you better if you tell us.

Hope that helps!

Rahul

[Remi Forax]

Hi Jochen,

see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/jvms-4.html#jvms-4.2

for more info.

Rémi

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[Jochen Theodorou]

On 14.12.2016 13:20, Rahul Muttineni wrote:
> Hi Jochen,
>
> The JVM specification allows pretty much anything that can be encoded in
> Modified-UTF8. If you want to run your generated classes directly on the
> JVM, pretty much any name will do. But if you want the classes that you
> are generating to be importable from Java via javac, you need to follow
> the JLS.
>
> For what purpose are you wondering about the naming? We might be able to
> help you better if you tell us.

In Groovy somebody made a script 2.groovy, which the Groovy compiler
compiled to 2.class and the JVM then refused to verify. So I was
wondering about the naming rules. Sure, I know about the basic rules of
/;[... but why is 2 as name not allowed. The only possible reason I
could find was that 2 is no valid identifier in Java, but that seemed to
me to be a wrong rule, since the JLS sould not define the JVMS.

In that manner... tanks Remi for
see
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/jvms-4.html#jvms-4.2,
but I don't see there why 2 is not allowed as class name... are am I blind?

bye Jochen

[Rahul Muttineni]

2.class works perfectly, see the following Gist:

https://gist.github.com/rahulmutt/b54412607904601e2412f9f9b89fd163

Can you share the precise verification error? I think the problem is on the Groovy side rather than the JVM side.

Hope that helps!

Rahul