Hello fellow VM developers!
As mentioned on #classpath I released javver, a tool for generating
random Java bytecode that is useful for testing VMs. You can get more
details on
http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e9825234/javver/
Currently javver uses only instructions for primitive arithmetic and
stack manipulation, but it already proved very useful in testing
CACAO. The generated bytecode tends to be very different from what
Java compilers emit, so it triggers bugs that are otherwise hard to
detect.
The biggest problem right now is locating a detected bug in the
crazy bunch of bytecode that javver emits, but I have ideas for
automating that.
Cheers
-Edwin
