On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 22:39:03 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @dholmes-ora sorry for responding late. I got sidetracked by some other work.
>> 
>>> We need to be sure this works as expected for top-level classes that have 
>>> no nest members, and deeply nested nest members, plus dynamically injected 
>>> hidden classes that are nest members.
>> 
>> I am not sure I understand this concern. We are getting nest-host and 
>> nest-members from the InstanceKlass. As long as this information is recorded 
>> in InstanceKlass, it would work. Can you please elaborate your concern about 
>> the cases you feel may not work.
>> 
>>> I'm unclear if this is intended to only expose the same details as would be 
>>> statically defined in the attribute in the classfile?
>> 
>> It is to expose the details as the JVM sees, which may be different from 
>> what is statically defined in the classfile if agents are involved.
>
> @ashu-mehra you indicated that you had only done two basic manual tests to 
> check the output. You need to check it for the cases that I flagged too. In 
> the VM every top-level class is its own nest-host, but that is not expressed 
> in a classfile attribute (it is just the defined semantics) so displaying 
> this as-if it were an explicit attribute may not be right.

@dholmes-ora I confirmed there is no nest-host or nest-members attributes 
generated by this patch for a top level class which doesn't have any 
nest-members. Is that what you wanted to verify?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15005#issuecomment-1658599841

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