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

[Laird Nelson]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 3:10 PM Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Looking at an annotation interface `A`'s @Target meta-annotation
> absolutely does tell you all the places that the annotation `@A` may
> appear. Everything about this is checked at compile time -- it has to be
> deterministic.
>
> For example, from `@Target(TYPE_USE)`, you can deduce that `@A` may
> appear on type uses, on class declarations, on interface declarations,
> and on type parameter declarations.
>

Let me put it a different way: what does annotating my annotation
with @Target({ ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.TYPE_PARAMETER,
ElementType.TYPE_USE }) accomplish that simply annotating it with @Target({
ElementType.TYPE_USE }) does not?

Thanks,
Laird
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