Verification in agent transformers

[Alan Bateman]

On 07/03/2025 17:28, Ryan Ernst wrote:
> When the transformer runs outside of retransformClasses, there is no VerifyError, yet the incompatible type existed (but it was unused, so did not trip a runtime problem, it was just a bad type sitting on the stack).
>

What does "outside of retransformClasses" mean? Is this static 
instrumentation where classes in modules mapped to the boot loader are 
instrumented and the jimage re-created with the modified classes, or is 
this load time instrumentation?

-Alan
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