Class file format specification for Java 8?

[Paul Sandoz]

On Mar 25, 2014, at 11:10 AM, forum at x9c.fr wrote:

> Dear List,
> 
> Now that Java 8 is released, I may want to update some of my
> tools to properly support this version. To this end, I wonder if
> there is an updated version of the "class file format specification",
> or any kind of delta against the version for 1.7.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any pointer.
> 

From here:

  http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/

you can get a diff of the changes to JVM spec from 7 to 8:

  http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/jvms8-diffs.pdf

Paul.