On 3/28/18 2:37 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
Hi,
As far as I think (but please prove me wrong), Stable class is not
loaded until someone explicitly asks for it in Java code (referring to
Stable type in bytecode like with Stable.class literal or parsing
annotations of a field that contains such annotation triggered by Java
API for annotations).
The VM code that parses some annotations like @Stable,
@CallerSensitive, @ForceInline, etc... works by matching the Symbol
names of annotation classes and doesn't need the to load the
annotation class for that. See parse_annotations in
classFileParser.cpp...
This is what I understand too. VM parses the annotation attributes
directly and no need to load any annotation class.
Mandy
