RFR: JDK-8213480: update internal ASM version to 7.0

[Vicente Romero]

On 11/8/18 8:14 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 07/11/2018 19:33, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
>> Hi Vicente,
>>
>> I recall an (internal?) discussion about updating ASM somewhen in JDK 
>> 11TF, and AFAIR it was decided not to update ASM b/c nothing in JDK 
>> needs that, has it been changed? put somewhat differently, why are we 
>> doing this?
>>
>> in any case, I don't like the changes in mlvm tests. I understand 
>> that ClassWriter has been significantly changed in ASM 7.0, so 
>> ClassWriterExt can't disable CP entries caching (at least not in the 
>> way it used to), but removing setCache* calls from the tests changed 
>> them and in some cases made them invalid as they don't test that they 
>> supposed to. therefore I'd prefer to leave all calls setCache* as-is, 
>> change setCache* implementation to throw an exception (similarly to 
>> the fix in JDK-8194826 
>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8194826>) and mark all 
>> tests which throw this exception w/ '@ignore 8194951' jtreg tag.
>>
>>
> ClassWriterExt the MLVM tests have come in previous upgrades too. Has 
> there been any discussion Remi or others on ASM to make it easier for 
> the JDK to upgrade?

I'm not aware of any such discussions.

>
> -Alan

Vicente