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.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12855

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