RFR: 8298475: Remove JVM_ACC_PROMOTED_FLAGS

[Daniel D. Daugherty]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:28:22 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

> These access flags were implemented to enable passing access flag values from Method* to InstanceKlass*, but only covered one flag.  Towards only have access flags represent read-only flags in the class file, remove this and pass has_localvariable_table up to InstanceKlass in classfile parsing, like we do with other flags.
> Tested with tier1-4.

Thumbs up. I definitely like this cleanup/fix.

Thanks for including the testing info.

src/hotspot/share/prims/jvmtiRedefineClasses.cpp line 4376:

> 4374:   if (scratch_class->has_localvariable_table() !=
> 4375:       the_class->has_localvariable_table()) {
> 4376:    the_class->set_has_localvariable_table(scratch_class->has_localvariable_table());

nit: need one more space for indent.

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Marked as reviewed by dcubed (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11655