RFR: Intentionally removed ACC_SUPER class modifier was causing hotswap to fail [v2]

[Leonid Kuskov]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 14:29:23 GMT, Jiří Vaněk <jvanek at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> When jasm's  disasm, modify, asm cycle output binary was used for class
>> hotswap, remote JDK was not accepting it with java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException:
>> class redefinition failed: attempted to change the class modifiers
>> beacuse of ommited supoer keyword (although it have already no real
>> reason)
>> 
>> This patch is returning the keyword without conditions, when it was
>> included in original bytecode
>
> Jiří Vaněk has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   extended test to verify that super is not used always
>   
>   if super is not in source code, then it is not in disambled code

The problem with initialized fields has been found - this is a reason of the gson issue.   the defect is under fixing https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/CODETOOLS-7903248

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/asmtools/pull/26