RFR: JDK-8241627: Updating ASM to 8.0 for JDK 15

[Paul Sandoz]

> On Apr 14, 2020, at 11:22 AM, Vicente Romero <vicente.romero at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On 4/14/20 2:05 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> Hi Vicente,
>> 
>> Looks ok from the changes required to integrate into the JDK.
>> 
>> Maybe the @SuppressWarnings warning annotations could be upstreamed?
> 
> do you mean to ask ASM team to include them?

Yes.


> Sorry that I wasn't more specific, the warnings come from the use of experimental APIs (intended for JDK preview features), they have used to approach of "deprecating" the experimental APIs
> 

Ah, I see now, I should have looked more closely.  I guess it’s a policy decision for the ASM maintainers, since ASM has to depend internally on some experimental components, say Opcodes.ASM9_EXPERIMENTAL. 

Paul.