RFR 8203436: javac should fail early when emitting illegal signature attributes

[Vicente Romero]

looks good!
Vicente

On 05/18/2018 02:12 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> Hi,
> this patch makes javac a bit stricter when it comes to generating 
> bytecode that has illegal signature attributes (which can happen in 
> case of non-denotable types). Instead of allowing compilation and then 
> fail at verify time, this patch issues an error message.
>
> I've refactored another generation-related diagnostic to share the 
> same 'header' - an example of the diagnostics involved is included in 
> the webrev.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/8203436/
>
> Cheers
> Maurizio
>