On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:59:03 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> The contended flag is required to be able to decode the compressed stream, >> because it signals the presence of an optional part of a field description. >> The only flag that was not required for the decoding of the stream and was >> not used by the SA was Stable, and I'll remove it in the next commit. > > Leaving it in allows the field to be displayed if an SA user ever dumps a > FieldFlags object. Generally speaking it is good to keep these structs > complete, or at least complete with any info that might be useful when > debugging with SA. The "stable" flag and the related methods have been preserved in the last commit. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12855