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Transcription: As a part of the linkage mechanism, there's something called the verifier. And whenever a piece of code comes into the system, the verifier gets run over it. And what the verifier does essentially is just check to make sure that all the rules of the language are adhered to by the actual incoming program. And the reason that we do this is that while the Java compiler does generate byte codes that follow the follow the rules, it's not necessary for the byte codes coming in to actually be generated by our compiler. So anyone can write a compiler that generates programs in the Java virtual machine ...