On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:34:38 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <cole...@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. @coleenp I have made the changes: cleanup code and rewrite the unit test ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14780#issuecomment-1663642898