David W. Van Couvering wrote:

> I really really don't want to see us modifying the class to indicate a
> different class version.  This path seems fraught with peril; this type
> of "white lie" (actually it's a pretty big lie) seems to me fraught with
> peril; who knows what other functionality depends on correct versioning
> of the class file?

That should be well defined by the JVM specification and updates from
Sun. Though I've never seen any definition of what the class major and
minor version imply, makes it hard to generate byte code. :-( I've
mentioned this to the J2SE spec lead before, though it was over beers.

Dan.


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