On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 05:18:01 GMT, Jean-Philippe Bempel <jpbem...@openjdk.org> 
wrote:

> Fix a small leak in constant pool merging during retransformation of a class. 
> If this class has a catch block with `Throwable`, the class `Throwable` is 
> pre-resolved in the constant pool, while all the other classes are in a 
> unresolved state. So the constant pool merging process was considering the 
> entry with pre-resolved class as different compared to the destination and 
> create a new entry. We now try to consider it as equal specially for 
> Methodref/Fieldref.

Also there is a nice test harness for class redefinition in the 
test/hotspot/jtreg/serviceability/jvmti/RedefineClasses tests that you might be 
able to use to add a test for this.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14780#issuecomment-1634358162

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