On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 04:56:34 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > Indeed, it would be a good RFE to allow users to override default attribute > mappers to parse attributes; this would be extremely useful if users wish to > support previous previews that only differed in the attribute formats. > I don't think at this point in time there would be any change in the format of any existing attributes, as that would be a binary incompatible change. But yes, having a way to override parsing of builtin attributes would be nice. > For the behavioral inconsistencies, we can backport this special handling > removal to active jdk update projects or even request specification changes > on LTS versions (see https://github.com/openjdk/jdk8u-ri) if this is deemed > important enough. I don't think that many projects use pre-Java 1 format at this point. While I saw some libraries that kept their version set to versions like Java 4 for no apparent reason... Hey, at least it's not Java 1 version. If Hotspot now parses these files incorrectly, it might be worth to just throw `UnsupportedClassVersionError` for oak class files? ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19826#issuecomment-2308102351
