RFR: 8340840: jshell ClassFormatError when making inner class static [v4]

[Adam Sotona]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:19:16 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlahoda at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Consider a JShell interaction like:
>> 
>> jshell> class O { class I {} }
>> |  created class O
>> 
>> jshell> var i = new O().new I();
>> i ==> O$I at 77caeb3e
>> 
>> jshell> class O { static class I {} }
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: class not in class file format
>>         at jdk.jdi/com.sun.tools.jdi.VirtualMachineImpl.redefineClasses(VirtualMachineImpl.java:396)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.execution.JdiExecutionControl.redefine(JdiExecutionControl.java:90)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.Unit.doRedefines(Unit.java:312)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.Eval.lambda$compileAndLoad$27(Eval.java:1120)
>>         at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$2$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:178)
>>         at java.base/java.util.AbstractList$RandomAccessSpliterator.forEachRemaining(AbstractList.java:722)
>>         at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:509)
>>         at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:499)
>>         at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:575)
>>         at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluateToArrayNode(AbstractPipeline.java:260)
>>         at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.toArray(ReferencePipeline.java:616)
>>         at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.toArray(ReferencePipeline.java:622)
>>         at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.toList(ReferencePipeline.java:627)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.Eval.lambda$compileAndLoad$29(Eval.java:1121)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.TaskFactory.lambda$runTask$4(TaskFactory.java:213)
>>         at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskPool.getTask(JavacTaskPool.java:193)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.TaskFactory.runTask(TaskFactory.java:206)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.TaskFactory.compile(TaskFactory.java:186)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.Eval.compileAndLoad(Eval.java:1100)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.Eval.declare(Eval.java:901)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.Eval.eval(Eval.java:140)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.jshell.JShell.eval(JShell.java:513)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.processSource(JShellTool.java:3633)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.processSourceCatchingReset(JShellTool.java:1353)
>>         at jdk.jshell/jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.processInput(JShellTool.java:1251)
>>       ...
>
> Jan Lahoda has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Fixing CheckExamples

Marked as reviewed by asotona (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27665#pullrequestreview-3404736517