[10] RFR 8191510: Bump classfile version number to 54

Paul Sandoz paul.sandoz at oracle.com
Mon Dec 4 22:33:57 UTC 2017



> On 4 Dec 2017, at 13:53, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/12/2017 7:22 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>>> On 3 Dec 2017, at 13:13, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Paul,
>>> 
>>> Don't you also need to update:
>>> 
>>> jdk/src/java.base/share/native/include/classfile_constants.h
>>> 
>>> #define JVM_CLASSFILE_MAJOR_VERSION 53
>>> 
>> I cannot find any usages for this constant, nor JVM_CLASSFILE_MINOR_VERSION. I will remove them.
> 
> Okay. I don't know the history or use of this file, other than it gets included into jvm.h to export the jvm interface to the jdk.
> 

And classfile_constants.h is also distributed with the image. I am unsure of the intent/history. To play it safe i will just bump the number.

Paul.




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