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

[forax at univ-mlv.fr]

After this patch, the version of ASM internally used by OpenJDK will accept V53 class files but not understand module-info.class specific file format,
so that version of ASM will be able to read module-info.class, but will see it as a class with a bunch of custom attributes and will not be able to generate module-info.class. 

so it's a kind of half broken version of ASM, my question is do you plan to read/write module-info with ASM (or as Jon said use Unicode 8 char sequence).

regards,
Rémi

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Alan Bateman" <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
> À: forax at univ-mlv.fr, "Sundararajan Athijegannathan" <sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com>
> Cc: "Kumar Srinivasan" <kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com>, "Jonathan Gibbons" <Jonathan.Gibbons at oracle.com>,
> "core-libs-dev" <core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mardi 15 Mars 2016 10:05:14
> Objet: Re: RFR: 8151858: update ASM 5.1 to accept V53.0 classfiles
> 
> 
> On 15/03/2016 08:41, 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 ?
> >
> We going to attempt to bring in the module system in jdk-9+111. The
> jdk9/dev -> master integration for jdk-9+110 has already happened so
> bumping the class version to 53.0 will go in after the module system. It
> does mean the module-info.class will be at 52.0 for a short time but I
> think we can live with that.
> 
> -Alan
>