RFR: 8241562: Rework nest host resolution/validation error support

[David Holmes]

Thanks Lois!

David

On 26/03/2020 9:40 pm, Lois Foltan wrote:
> I've been following the preliminary conversations on this.  I think it 
> looks good!
> Lois
> 
> On 3/26/2020 5:19 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8241562/webrev/
>>
>> This is (hopefully) the last pre-integration cleanup for JEP-371: 
>> Hidden classes.
>>
>> Rather than store the error message in a field of InstanceKlass we 
>> piggy-back onto the existing ResolutionErrorTable logic and add a new 
>> field to the ResolutionErrorEntry.
>>
>> Also factored out the complex error message logic in linkResolver 
>> methods.
>>
>> There's one code path in free_entry not covered by any existing 
>> testing so I will look at developing a test for that. Otherwise all 
>> new code paths have been tested.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
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