On Dec 14, 2017, at 6:50 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote: > > If we encounter nestmate attributes in a classfile with a version that > pre-dates the Nestmate release, do we ignore them completely (as an unknown > attribute) or assume they are in fact our nestmate attributes?
I think we need to ignore them for down-rev class files. That's what we do currently do for attributes like annotations or generic signatures or bootstrap specifiers.