On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:59:41 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>>> Yet I think we can consider promoting Constant Pool tag from byte or char, >>> short, or int to represent a u1 in case it goes over 127. >> >> Is there any chance a change like this could make it into JDK 24? I'd >> imagine it would be too late after that because it's a binary incompatible >> change. > > Don't think so. This imo is fixable in the future if we do have many new > cp/annotation tags (see example of Thread::threadId), though I don't think > that is likely Wait, I referenced the wrong thing. I was speaking about this: > Maybe just using `int` everywhere for consistency might be a good option too. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20773#discussion_r1863964283