RFR: 8357220: Introduce a BSMAttributeEntry struct [v7]

[Johan Sjölen]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:03:20 GMT, Johan Sjölen <jsjolen at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>>  The constant pool currently has a lot of methods specific to extracting parts of the operands array. What this array actually is, is a sequence of bootstrap method attribute entries, where each entry has the following components:
>> 
>> ```c++
>> struct BSMAE {
>>   u2 bootstrap_method_index;
>>   u2 argument_count;
>>   u2 arguments[argument_count];
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> We can removes some of these operands array specific methods, and instead allows you to extract BSMAttributeEntrys which you can then use to extract its piece wise components. This makes for a nicer interface, and a bit easier to come into as a reader of the code, as it more closely mirrors the JVMS. 
>> 
>> Please consider!
>> 
>> Testing: Currently GHA, running tier1-tier3
>
> Johan Sjölen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Fix

Thank you all for the reviews!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25298#issuecomment-2995192388