RFR(S): 8186439: [MVT] ClassFileParser should ignore JVM_ACC_VALUE for class file version < 53.1

[David Simms]

On 21/08/17 10:57, Tobias Hartmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for looking at this!
>
> On 21.08.2017 10:51, David Simms wrote:
>> src/share/vm/oops/instanceKlass.hpp: whitespace changes, from 2 to 4 
>> spaces (style guide says 2) ? mistake, forgot to revert ?
>
> Actually, my change removes these excess whitespaces:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~thartmann/8186439/webrev.00/src/share/vm/oops/instanceKlass.hpp.patch 
>
>

Hehe, my bad, reading backwards apparently. Good catch, thanks for that.

>> Minor point, "supports_value_types()" and with "EnableValhalla || 
>> EnableMVT" ?
>
> No, that does not work because even without EnableValhalla or 
> EnableMVT we still load java.lang.__Value.
>
> We should probably add an assert/guarantee once we got rid of the 
> __Value references.
>

Ah, yeah...thanks for the explanation

/David