Final nestmates spec

[David Holmes]

On 15/12/2017 1:53 PM, John Rose wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2017, at 6:50 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com 
> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> If we encounter nestmate attributes in a classfile with a version that 
>> pre-dates the Nestmate release, do we ignore them completely (as an 
>> unknown attribute) or assume they are in fact our nestmate attributes?
> 
> I think we need to ignore them for down-rev class files.
> That's what we do currently do for attributes like annotations
> or generic signatures or bootstrap specifiers.

Thanks John. I went looking for existing examples but for some reason my 
brain kept reading the JAVA_1_5_VERSION check as if it were JAVA_1_2. 
TGIF. :)

Cheers,
David