Re: Move to support jdk 12

> De: "Evgeny Mandrikov" <[email protected]>
> À: "Remi Forax" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "asm" <[email protected]>
> Envoyé: Mardi 26 Juin 2018 12:13:42
> Objet: Re: [asm] Move to support jdk 12

> Hi Remi,
> Wondering why not use two JDKs - one for compilation, one for tests?

Hi Evgeny, 
we want people to contribute to ASM, submit merge/pull requests, etc ? 

so the setup has to be simple. 

Rémi 

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:08 AM Remi Forax < [ mailto:[email protected] |
> [email protected] ] > wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> the jdk 11 will be the last version to support the java 6 compilation target,
>> the version 12 of javac will soon remove the support of java 6.

>> Given that we need java 8 to run the test, i think we should use java 8 as
>> target for the code and re-write the bytecode to still be 1.5 compatible
>> (currently we only do 1.6 to 1.5),
>> as far i as know, it means at least to rewrite all occurences of invokestatic
>> Objects.requiresNonNull + pop to invokevirtual Object.getClass (javac 7
>> generates Objects.requiresNonNull to do a null check). Is there any other
>> changes we need to do to still be java 5 compatible ?

>> regards,
>> Rémi

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