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8215300: additional changes to constants API

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Reviewed-by: goetz
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Vicente Romero 2018-12-13 10:35:09 -05:00
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src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/constant/package-info.java
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@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
* storing the value in a constant pool entry, or reconstituting the value given
* a class loading context. Every {@link java.lang.constant.ConstantDesc}
* knows how to <em>resolve</em> itself -- compute the value that it describes --
* via {@link java.lang.constant.ConstantDesc#resolveConstantDesc(java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles.Lookup)}.
* via {@link java.lang.constant.ConstantDesc#resolveConstantDesc(java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles.Lookup) ConstantDesc.resolveConstantDesc}.
* This allows an API which accepts {@link java.lang.constant.ConstantDesc}
* objects to evaluate them reflectively, provided that the classes and methods
* referenced in their nominal description are present and accessible.
@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
* When a bytecode-reading API encounters a constant pool entry, it can
* convert it to the appropriate type of nominal descriptor. For dynamic
* constants, bytecode-reading APIs may wish to use the factory
* {@link java.lang.constant.DynamicConstantDesc#ofCanonical(DirectMethodHandleDesc, java.lang.String, ClassDesc, ConstantDesc[])},
* {@link java.lang.constant.DynamicConstantDesc#ofCanonical(DirectMethodHandleDesc, java.lang.String, ClassDesc, ConstantDesc[]) DynamicConstantDesc.ofCanonical},
* which will inspect the bootstrap and, for well-known bootstraps, return
* a more specific subtype of {@link java.lang.constant.DynamicConstantDesc}, such as
* {@link java.lang.Enum.EnumDesc}.