----- Mail original ----- > De: "Alex Buckley" <alex.buck...@oracle.com> > À: jigsaw-dev@openjdk.java.net > Envoyé: Samedi 5 Décembre 2015 00:09:16 > Objet: Re: is ClassLoader.loadClass() supposed to work on module-info classes? > > 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? :-)
It can be just a compiler change (a JLS change) if invokedynamic is used instead of invokevirtual for doing the re-targeting. But as currently specified by the JEP 193, yes, the semantics of invokevirtual is enhanced so it requires to bump the major version to 53.0 > > (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.) at the same time, having a simple way to use Foo.class (without triggering the initialization of the class) in an annotation but not inside a plain old code will have been weird. > > Alex > Rémi
