On 05/02/2019 23:10, Mandy Chung wrote:
BootClassLoader mistakenly overrides the 1-arg loadClassOrNull method
instead of the 2-arg loadClassOrNull method. A class defined to
the bootstrap class loader is intended to call JVM entry point
to find such class rather than ClassLoader::defineClass method
via the implementation-specific BootClassLoader instance.
The patch is trivial; BootClassLoader overrides the two-arg
loadClassOrNull instead.
Webrev at:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk13/webrevs/8218419/webrev.00
Looks good. I assume it isn't too common to be loading the annotations
of classes deployed with -Xbootclasspath/a which might explain why the
issue has existed for several releases without anyone noticing.
-Alan
