RFR: 8228604: StackMapFrames are missing from redefined class bytes of retransformed classes

[Alan Bateman]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:16:10 GMT, Alex Menkov <amenkov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> classFileParser drops stack map frames for JDK classes (when verification is not required).
> As a result JvmtiClassFileReconstituter cannot restore the attribute for class redefinition.
> Note that if the class is in CDS archive, the frames are restored from CDS, so this issue affects only JDK classes which are not in CDS.
> This code is old (from "initial load") and I don't understand the reason it was implemented this way.
> 
> Testing: tier1-tier6

@forax can you provide a brief summary on ASM behavior when modifying a class class that doesn't have the StackMapTable. I guess I would assume that an agent/tool modifying a class would require it to be regenerated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12155