RFR: 8264142: Remove TRAPS/THREAD parameters for verifier related functions [v4]

[David Holmes]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:15:20 GMT, Harold Seigel <hseigel at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/hotspot/share/classfile/verifier.cpp line 695:
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>>> 693:   ConstantPool* cp = _klass->constants();
>>> 694:   Symbol* const method_sig = cp->symbol_at(sig_index);
>>> 695:   translate_signature(method_sig, sig_verif_types, CHECK_VERIFY(this));
>> 
>> CHECK_VERIFY is not directly related to exceptions. Are there really no verification errors possible from all of these calls where CHECK_VERIFY has been removed?
>
> The calls where CHECK_VERIFY's were removed are to functions that deal with signatures.  These methods do not check for errors because the signatures have already been verified by classFileParser.cpp in functions such as verify_legal_method_signature() and verify_legal_field_signature().

Okay - thanks for confirming that.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3194