Convert old-style array declarations
Stuart Marks
stuart.marks at oracle.com
Tue Oct 2 23:28:33 UTC 2018
On 10/1/18 10:46 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> This is one example of a change that should leave zero
> impact on the generated bytecode, and that should be testable, if only by
> comparing the .class files for identical size.
This is a good point. I did something similar when I did the "diamond"
conversion way back in JDK 7. That conversion didn't change any bytecodes, I
compared class files to ensure the results were identical after the change. That
provided greater assurance of correctness for large changesets.
s'marks
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