RFR: 8009719: core reflection should get type annotation data from the VM lazily

[Erik Joelsson]

Build part of the changes are fine.

/Erik

On 2013-09-21 16:26, Joel Borggren-Franck wrote:
> Hi
>
> A while ago [1] I introduced an extra field in to j.l.r.Method,
> j.l.r.Constructor, and j.l.r.Field in order to support reflection for
> type annotations. These fields were intended to be removed later, they
> were there to make the coordination between VM and libraries easier when
> implementing reflection for type annotations.
>
> This change removes the fields. Reflection for type annotations simply
> get the bytes from the vm lazily when it needs them. Because reflection
> for type annotations is suspected to be fairly uncommon and not
> performance critical no caching is done. This can be changed later.
>
> The vm side of things were pushed a while back [2], this is the JDK side
> of the changes.
>
> This is a refactoring, all current annotation and type annotation tests
> pass after this change.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jfranck/8009719/webrev.01/
> Bug id: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8009719
>
> Also including build-dev since I needed to update the mapfiles. To my
> knowledge I have updated both the old and the new build.
>
> Please review
>
> cheers
> /Joel
>
> [1] : http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/6d977f61af5e
> [2] : http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/rev/1916ca1dec2f