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    <p>Yes, as a general rule, the compiler and runtime should be

      mutually consistent.</p>

    <p>This discussion probably also applies to javac reading names in

      source files and having those names propagate to class files.</p>

    <p>-- Jon</p>

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/23 3:07 PM, Archie Cobbs wrote:<br>

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        <div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 4:01 PM Jonathan Gibbons

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              <p>More on changing PoolReader ... ideally, this should be

                tied back to details in JVMS, and/or the spec updated to

                define the expected behavior of the VM and javac for

                similar but different equivalent names.</p>

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          <div>Funny you should mention it :) See the PR I just filed (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/12893__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!ISI9uy1X6lKTbsrTk8a0Y6vFyGFZc8MWhHsrhGsOhQycEB5EfevTYiXZlgu7BiSlFArVXPkX-JOfD6APKlBPht6Yo9g$" moz-do-not-send="true">link</a>), quoting:</div>

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              <p dir="auto">JVMS §4.4.7 describes "Modified UTF-8" for

                encoded strings, and it does not allow for non-standard

                encodings. Instead, you'll get something like this:</p>

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Error: LinkageError occurred while loading main class Test

        java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal UTF8 string in constant pool in class file Test

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              <p dir="auto">So the compiler should also reject any

                invalid classfiles containing them.</p>

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            <p>-Archie<br>

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