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Description
Currently the checker prints a warning (or fails the build), if you use Java 8
to verify your classes. The problem is: It must read class files from rt.jar,
which are in Java 8 format.
ASM 5.0 is not yet released, but the file format did not change at all (they
just added new code attributes). So ASM 4.x could read the classes, but it
checks the version header. The idea here is to patch the class if it is in
version 52 (Java 8). It would just downgrade the signature to version 51.
The checker would still not support Java 8 "officially", but will not fail to
work. No signature files for Java 8 will be provided until Java 8 is officially
released.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by uwe.h.schindler on 27 Apr 2013 at 4:53