RFR: 8298065: Provide more information in message of NoSuchFieldError [v4]

[Ioi Lam]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:04:00 GMT, Matias Saavedra Silva <matsaave at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/hotspot/share/interpreter/linkResolver.cpp line 977:
>> 
>>> 975:     THROW_MSG(vmSymbols::java_lang_NoSuchFieldError(),
>>> 976:         err_msg("No resolved class, field '%s %s'",
>>> 977:                 type2name(Signature::basic_type(sig->char_at(0))),
>> 
>> Isn't this going to report "object" for all non-primitive types?
>
> You're absolutely right, this would output "object" for all references and "array" for all array types. Ideally this should be more detailed about these types.

There's no test case for this condition.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11745