RFR: JDK-8234689 facilitate writing additional custom attributes in a class file

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Hi Jan,

Yes, it did occur to me after the fact that we could keep the existing 
method if we wanted to.  I'll put it back and update the test.

-- Jon


On 12/05/2019 11:57 PM, Jan Lahoda wrote:
> Overall looks OK to me. Not sure if it would make sense to keep the 
> existing method? The test will need tweaks for @bug and @summary.
>
> Jan
>
> On 06. 12. 19 3:23, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>> Please review a small change to javac to permit friendly clients to 
>> inject additional attributes into a class file.
>>
>> This supersedes and generalizes an existing mechanism which is 
>> difficult/impractical to use, especially
>> in current versions of javac where split packages are strongly 
>> discouraged.
>>
>> -- Jon
>>
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8234689
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8234689/webrev.00/
>>