On 4/15/12 9:56 PM, "Martin Heidegger" <m...@leichtgewicht.at> wrote:
> On 16/04/2012 13:21, Alex Harui wrote:
>> I wouldn't say "never touch". There is probably a bug or two worth fixing.
>> But I would save any major changes for Falcon.
>
> Well, I would. Have seen too many "features" that resulted in more bugs.
> Hardly any functionality
> that never breaks anything.
I would save "feature" work for Falcon. But I can imagine there are bug
fixes worth taking.
>
>> The proper way to test the compiler is out of my area of expertise.
>
> Is it so different from other code? Test the public API if it does whats
> its supposed to :)
And that's why it is out of my area. Is the public API of a compiler its
command-line options? Or the public API of classes in the jars?
>
>> I would think that one way would be to code up a set of SWFs and see if they
>> continue to output correctly. Such a thing would be useful for Falcon as
>> well.
> Hmm... sounds like bytecode analysis best written in a language that
> supports threading. Using the FlashPlayer for that will be terribly
> slow. Sounds like fun.
swfxprinter.java is in the donation and converts ABC code to text.
Something like it could be used to do analysis.
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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
