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