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

[David Holmes]

Thanks Harold!

David

On 26/03/2020 10:44 pm, Harold Seigel wrote:
> +1
> 
> Harold
> 
> On 3/26/2020 7:40 AM, 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
>>