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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