Implementation of changed bytecode representation

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 12/03/2012 01:15 AM, Werner Dietl wrote:
> Please find a patch against the type-annotations/langtools repository
> attached (I just pushed a recent merge with tl).
> I implemented many of the recently discussed bytecode changes: reorder
> elements, remove _COMPONENT TargetTypes, and introduce TypePathEntry.
> It's not quite done yet: I still need to separate numbering of type
> arguments and arrays/inner types, renumber inner types, and adapt the
> referenceinfo test cases (which will be a big pain and I would prefer
> doing this only once).
>
> I would appreciate feedback on the changes to class
> com.sun.tools.javac.code.TypeAnnotationPosition, in particular how I
> added TypePathEntry, TPEKind, and the new location field.
> The whole com.sun.tools.javac package hierarchy compiles; packages
> classfile and javap currently won't compile, as they depend on code
> duplicated from TypeAnnotationPosition and I only want to copy that
> code over once. The uses are however mostly adapted already.
>
> All comments very welcome!
> cu, WMD.
>

Generally, code looks good, except for the //TODO's.

-- Jon