On Apr 22, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:
>>
>> My first move would be to regard this attribute as reserved to a "Code"
>> attribute,
>> but it seems that data sharing would be increased by putting it a the class
>> level.
>
> The BootstrapMethods attribute is a class attribute.
> And you're right that this is not written anywhere :(
> We should fix that too.
Current javadoc:
* <h3><a name="bsmattr"></a>the {@code BootstrapMethods} attribute </h3>
* Each {@code CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic} entry contains an index which references
* a bootstrap method specifier; all such specifiers are contained in a
separate array.
* This array is defined by a class attribute named {@code BootstrapMethods}.
This seems to cover it. I added a comment in the structure summary:
// required attribute on any class containing CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic_info:
struct BootstrapMethods_attr {
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