RFR JDK-8182678: add javac and method handle support for mangled value class names in CONSTANT_ClassInfo

[Paul Sandoz]

Looks good, although it would be nice if the javac and java properties were the same name as it’s hard to remember the plethora of such properties that are available.

Paul.

> On 21 Jun 2017, at 17:12, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> the following two patches:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/8182678_langtools/
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/8182678_jdk/
> 
> Add support for mangled value class names in ClassInfo for both javac and the bytecode API (used for MH spinning).
> 
> The support is enabled with these two options:
> 
> javac: -XDmangleClassInfo
> 
> jdk: -Dvalhalla.mangleClassInfo=true
> 
> 
> I also added class reading support to javac - and that's always enabled.
> 
> I verified that javap works as expected - since a ClassInfo is just a string, javap doesn't complain if there's an extra ';' prefix in there, so things looks good already.
> 
> Cheers
> Maurizio
> 
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