> Which makes me ask ... if it really is a side channel, does it really go > *in* the ClassDesc?
If it's not in the ClassDesc, then how do we communicate the side channel to users - e.g. class file generators? I recently rewatched your JVMLS talk from 2018 [1] where javac converted the jl.constant version of the descriptions into an `ldc`. Now none of that is in the language yet but if we drop the stars from descriptors now, the info won't be available when/if that vision comes to fruition. --Dan [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSEjlLFCS3E&list=PLX8CzqL3ArzVnxC6PYxMlngEMv3W1pIkn&index=2&t=2s
