Why does a 'new' statement produce so many temporary variables

Tue Aug 9 16:22:00 GMT 2011

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Li junsong <ljs.darkfish@gmail.com> wrote:
>  3. I find that there is no document to describe the implementation of
> Java front end.
>      I don't understand why we need so many temporary variables:
>>      #ref#2#4 = _Jv_AllocObjectNoFinalizer (&Number.class$$);
>      #ref#3#6 = #ref#2#4;
>      #ref#2#4 = #ref#3#6;
>>      Here, the #ref#3#6 and #ref#2#4 is a kind waste. But each "new" statement
>      does the same thing.

The reason is because this is an exact translation of the java
byte-code. Most source to java byte-code compilers don't do any
optimizations which is why we get a lot of temporary variables here
(this includes the one included with Eclipse which is what GCJ uses as
the source compiler).
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski