Support strict metadata version semantics
Preface: Kotlin 1.3 will be able to read metadata of .class files produced by Kotlin 1.4 (see KT-25972). Also, to simplify implementation and to improve diagnostic messages, we're going to advance JVM metadata version to 1.4.0 in Kotlin 1.4, and would like to keep it in sync with the compiler version thereafter. This presents a problem: in an unlikely event that before releasing 1.4, we find out that the metadata-reading implementation in 1.3 was incorrect, we'd like to be able to fix the bug in that implementation and _forbid_ 1.3 from reading metadata of 1.4. But prior to this commit the only way to do this was to advance the metadata version, in this case to 1.5, and that breaks the metadata/compiler version equivalence we'd like to keep. The solution is to add another boolean flag to the class file, called "strict metadata version semantics", which signifies that if this class file has metadata version 1.X, then it can only be read by the compilers of versions 1.X and greater. This flag effectively disables the smooth migration scenario proposed in KT-25972 (as does increasing metadata version by 2), and will be used only in hopeless situations as in the case described above.
This commit is contained in:
@@ -56,9 +56,11 @@ public annotation class Metadata(
|
||||
/**
|
||||
* An extra int. Bits of this number represent the following flags:
|
||||
*
|
||||
* 0 - this is a multi-file class facade or part, compiled with `-Xmultifile-parts-inherit`.
|
||||
* 1 - this class file is compiled by a pre-release version of Kotlin and is not visible to release versions.
|
||||
* 2 - this class file is a compiled Kotlin script source file (.kts).
|
||||
* * 0 - this is a multi-file class facade or part, compiled with `-Xmultifile-parts-inherit`.
|
||||
* * 1 - this class file is compiled by a pre-release version of Kotlin and is not visible to release versions.
|
||||
* * 2 - this class file is a compiled Kotlin script source file (.kts).
|
||||
* * 3 - the metadata of this class file is not supposed to be read by the compiler, whose major.minor version is less than
|
||||
* the major.minor version of this metadata ([mv]).
|
||||
*/
|
||||
@SinceKotlin("1.1")
|
||||
val xi: Int = 0
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user