Hi Karen,
On 21/02/2018 1:54 AM, Karen Kinnear wrote:
Folks,
As part of the Valhalla EG discussions for JVMTI changes for nestmates (thank
you Serguei and David),
IBM brought up a request that we update the JVMTI documentation to reflect that
we allow addition
of private methods.
Is there a reason we do not document this? I’m inviting those who were involved
at the time - please include
others if needed.
This issue is tracked by:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8192936
"RI does not follow the JVMTI RedefineClasses spec that is too strict in
the definition"
As I wrote there ... It is not at all clear how JDK-6404550 morphed into
"Permit the adding or deleting of private final/static methods with
redefine" - nor why those changes failed to make any change to the spec
itself. It is also unclear whether the add/delete is restricted to
final/static methods or any private method? I can see that the intent
was to only allow something that would not perturb the vtable for
existing instances.
--
David
thanks,
Karen
