John,
Condy JVMS looks really good.
Could of small questions/comments:
1. 4.5 fields
in 5.4.3.6 you have a much clearer description of the argument types
could you either reference that or include the bullets here? (the syntax is
not clear from the sentence structure)
2. instructions that can use condy
The JVMS lists ldc/ldc_w
I think you mentioned that a bootstrap method specifier could contain a condy
CP reference
Are there other places these can appear today?
3. We need to discuss redefineclasses and BootstrapMethod Attributes
- Lois and I think we may already have an issue here with indy and condy
could just
make this more common
- we may want to enhance the redefineclasses documentation restrictions on
attributes
The redefinition may change method bodies, the constant pool and attributes.
The redefinition must not add, remove or rename fields or methods, change the
signatures of methods, or change inheritance. These restrictions maybe be
lifted in future versions. The class file bytes are not checked, verified and
installed until after the transformations have been applied, if the resultant
bytes are in error this method will throw an exception.
thanks,
Karen
