On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:18:17 GMT, Chen Liang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As another step toward the removal of the old generics infrastructure, I >> propose to remove the usages of generic parsing utilities and use the >> facilities provided by BytecodeDescriptor, already used by >> MethodType.fromDescriptorString. This also prevents extra validation cost in >> use sites to defend against generic types. >> >> In this patch, BytecodeDescriptor and Wrapper see minor updates, mainly for >> better exception messages - previously, an unparseable char in the >> descriptor string just reports that char, and now the whole descriptor >> string is reported. >> >> These behaviors are already covered by the tests added in JDK-8350704 #23788. >> >> Testing: reflect/annotation/Class, running tier 1+2 > > Chen Liang has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge > or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in > by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional commits since > the last revision: > > - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into > fix/generic-desc-parse > - Roll back wrapper, test for BytecodeDescriptor > - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into > fix/generic-desc-parse > - 8356022: Migrate descriptor parsing from generics to BytecodeDescriptor Marked as reviewed by rriggs (Reviewer). ------------- PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24978#pullrequestreview-3273946569
