On 12/4/2015 11:58 AM, Peter Levart wrote:
I know about those options. What I was wanting to know is whether the class file format will change and for what features.
It's possible that VarHandles will justify a bump to 53.0 because of new semantics for invokevirtual (see JEP 193). Paging Paul Sandoz, how is that JVM Spec update coming along? :-)
(Yes, changing instruction semantics causes a bump. Changing ldc in SE 5.0 to support class constants bumped 48.0 to 49.0, thus losing the ability to compile code with generics on JDK 5 and run the class files on 1.4.)
Alex
