RFR: 8339260: Move rarely used constants out of ClassFile [v9]

[Chen Liang]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:20:50 GMT, Luca Kellermann <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Don't think so. This imo is fixable  in the future if we do have many new cp/annotation tags (see example of Thread::threadId), though I don't think that is likely
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> Wait, I referenced the wrong thing. I was speaking about this:
>> Maybe just using `int` everywhere for consistency might be a good option too.

Can you try raise this problem in this mailing list https://mail.openjdk.org/mailman/listinfo/classfile-api-dev?
I don't think this is critical enough from a Java developer's perspective and we are close to RDP 1, but people on the list might agree with your proposal and we might get an emergency patch (with CSR reviews) to fix this up.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20773#discussion_r1864029376