RFR: 8151858: update ASM 5.1 to accept V53.0 classfiles

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Rémi,

FYI, the new Module attribute is just one of the reasons to bump the 
class file version number.

See the list here:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2016-January/003507.html

-- Jon

On 03/15/2016 01:41 AM, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
> +1 too,
>
> Upstream, we will wait to implement the module-info file format before bumping the supported major version.
>
> Do you need to support module-info file soon ?
>
> regards,
> Rémi
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Sundararajan Athijegannathan" <sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com>
>> À: "Kumar Srinivasan" <kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com>, "Remi Forax" <forax at univ-mlv.fr>, "Jonathan Gibbons"
>> <Jonathan.Gibbons at oracle.com>, "Alan Bateman" <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
>> Cc: "core-libs-dev" <core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>> Envoyé: Mardi 15 Mars 2016 02:14:56
>> Objet: Re: RFR: 8151858: update ASM 5.1 to accept V53.0 classfiles
>>
>> +1
>>
>> -Sundar
>>
>> On 3/15/2016 6:37 AM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>>> Hi Remi, Jon, Alan,
>>>
>>> This is in preparation to increment the class-file major version,
>>> since we have internal dependencies, we cannot wait for upstream
>>> changes, and have to line up our ducks, and yes there are several
>>> of these, sprinkled all over the JDK.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ksrini/8151858/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Kumar
>>>
>>