On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 05:18:01 GMT, Jean-Philippe Bempel <jpbem...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Fix a small leak in constant pool merging during retransformation of a class. > If this class has a catch block with `Throwable`, the class `Throwable` is > pre-resolved in the constant pool, while all the other classes are in a > unresolved state. So the constant pool merging process was considering the > entry with pre-resolved class as different compared to the destination and > create a new entry. We now try to consider it as equal specially for > Methodref/Fieldref. I see. I was looking at jcod output but that doesn't distinguish resolved vs. unresolved class. At any rate, the verifier will re-resolve the class when it verifies the merged constant pool. It's still safe to consider these types as same. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14780#issuecomment-1634290376