Name of the module -info in the classfile format Was: module-info.java just causes problems

[forax at univ-mlv.fr]

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Jonathan Gibbons" <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>
> À: forax at univ-mlv.fr, "jigsaw-dev" <jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 11 Mai 2016 22:03:09
> Objet: Re: module-info.java just causes problems

Hi Jon,

> 
> 
> 
> On 05/11/2016 11:53 AM, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
> > I also want to gather experience on the bytecode representation,
> > BTW, the current format has a bug, encoding the name of a module as a part
> > of the class name fell like a hack. It is a bad idea because the JVM Spec
> > doesn't allow some characters in a class name, i think it should be
> > encoded as a Utf8 (at the starts of the Module attribute),
> > it's also weird because the name of the module-info.class is not
> > "module-info" unlike any other classes, this will require to change more
> > code than necessary in a lot of bytecode tools i know.
> 
> package-info.class is a precedent.

No, package-info.java is not stored at the root of a module but in the directory containing the class of the package,
so if the source file is java/util/package-info.java, the class file is java/util/package-info.class and the name of the class inside the class file is java/util/package-info.

for the module-info,
the source file is module-info.java, the class file is module-info.class and the class inside the class file is whatever/is/the/name/of/my/module/module-info.
 

> 
> -- Jon
> 

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