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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
May. 27, 1999
Gilad Bracha, Los Altos, CA (US);
Timothy G. Lindholm, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sheng Liang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, computer program, signal transmission, apparatus and system verify instructions in a module of a computer program to be dynamically linked with at least one other module. First it is determined whether checking an instruction in a first module which is loaded requires a lowest upper bound (LUB) class of at least two referenced classes in one or more referenced modules different than the first module. If such information is required, a constraint for the referenced module is written without loading the referenced module. The constraint is of the form “the set of at least two classes inherits from a specified class.”