Improving javap output for annotations

[Werner Dietl]

The current output from javap -v is quite hard to read when it comes
to annotations.
For a declaration annotation, it displays:

    RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations:
      0: #29()

Similarly, for a complex type annotation, we see:

      2: #18(#19=s#20,#21=I#22,#23=[I#24,I#22,I#25]):
METHOD_REFERENCE, offset=0, location=[TYPE_ARGUMENT(1)]

The value of constant pool references is resolved in other locations -
as a comment. For example:

0: invokedynamic #2,  0              // InvokeDynamic
#0:lambda:()Ljava/util/function/Function;

Would it be possible to implement similar logic for annotations? Or is
there an option I'm missing?

cu, WMD.

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