Is a TYPE_USE annotation stored as such in a class file?

[Laird Nelson]

Another TYPE_USE question. Consider:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ ElementType.TYPE_USE })
@interface A {}

@A class B{}

I am surprised to see @A in the returned array from
B.class.getAnnotations() since it is not an element annotation.

Furthermore, I do not see the string "RuntimeVisibleTypeAnnotations" in the
class file for B (which is why I'm writing to the compiler-dev list). I am
no VM/bytecode person but I would expect to see that if a runtime-visible
type use annotation is being recorded, yes? Although I do not see a place
in the target_info structure that would to my naive eyes be suitable for
this particular usage.

Is @A's usage here recorded in the wrong place as the wrong sort of thing?
This has a whiff of https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8030751 to it but I
wanted to confirm.

Thanks,
Laird
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