On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 19:13:01 GMT, Ashutosh Mehra <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> > What would be needed to make the Annotations appear in the "printall" 
> > command? I was somehow expecting to see at least something like 
> > "Annotation@xxxx".
> 
> I am not sure what all details `printall` is expected to emit out. Looking at 
> the code, printall doesn't seem to use ClassWriter. It uses HTMLGenerator to 
> format the method data. I can emit something like "Annotation@xxxx" but it 
> would be more useful if it can display the contents of the annotations. 
> Unfortunately HTMLGenerator doesn't understand Annotations at all. Probably 
> it is better left for another task.

No problem at all. I only thought about this because it would have making a 
regression test very easy (there is a jtreg test that calls printall and then 
parses the output).

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14735#issuecomment-1632735373

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