RFR: JDK-8023278: Reflection API methods do not throw AnnotationFormatError in case of malformed Runtime[In]VisibleTypeAnnotations attribute

[Joe Darcy]

Hi Joel,

Looks fine; thanks,

-Joe

On 11/21/2013 11:50 AM, Joel Borggrén-Franck wrote:
> Hi
>
> Please review this fix to the type annotation reflection parser. The wrong kind of exception was thrown in the case of malformed Runtime[In]VisibleTypeAnnotations .
>
> Also the parser needed to be fixed for sign issues in a handful of places.
>
> The test has tree broken classes encoded that tests a few of the error paths in the parser, I have also run the reproducer from JCK attached to the bug report and it passes.
>
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023278
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jfranck/8023278/webrev.00/
>
> cheers
> /Joel
>