RFR: 8291360: Create entry points to expose low-level class file information [v3]

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 12:28:51 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I think it seems more natural to display the major version first, but I can change it if you prefer.
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> I think it should match the underlying representation else it may cause someone trying to debug a failure to look at the wrong part of the flags value, not realizing the printed value has the opposite format of the actual raw value.

Do humans read this or computers?  A human would want major:minor because that would make more sense.  Isn't this a test?  Just a drive by comment.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9688