A list of issues about Classfile API

[Brian Goetz]

Thanks, Adam, this is a good point.  All the more reason why we need 
some better documentation on attribute handling, and especially on 
"special attributes"; not only are some attributes (e.g., 
BootstrapMethodsTable) treated specially, here StackMapTable can be 
treated either way.

On 6/28/2023 11:33 AM, Adam Sotona wrote:
>
> *From: *classfile-api-dev <classfile-api-dev-retn at openjdk.org> on 
> behalf of liangchenblue at gmail.com <liangchenblue at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 28 June 2023 8:33
> *To: *classfile-api-dev <classfile-api-dev at openjdk.org>
> *Subject: *A list of issues about Classfile API
>
> Hello, I just looked over the Classfile API and found a few design 
> issues, aside from simple typos addressed in 
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14686:
>
> Specific issues:
>
> 1.1. If CodeElement is only for streamable elements, then 
> StackMapTableAttribute shouldn't be a CodeElement, as it's never 
> delivered in code streams.
>
> StackMapTableAttributeis not delivered, however there is a strong case 
> where user needs to create it manually and drop to CodeBuilder (with 
> generation disabled).
>
> We probably forgot about this case and it is not tested, however it 
> should work.
>
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