On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 23:37:15 GMT, Joe Darcy <da...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> During the recent review of JDK-8228988, I noticed again the comments in the > annotation parser about support for the pre-GA annotation format used before > JDK 5.0 shipped. During the development of annotations, there was a late > change to correct a flaw in the annotation encoding, JDK-5020908. > > I don't think it is necessary to carry forward support for this transient > format any longer and this changeset removes support from both core > reflection and javac. > > Clean runs of relevant test; I gauge this fix as no-reg hard. This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: 8758b554 Author: Joe Darcy <da...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/8758b554 Stats: 24 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 19 del; 5 mod 8265591: Remove vestiages of intermediate JSR 175 annotation format Reviewed-by: jfranck ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3597
