src/hotspot/share/oops/klass.hpp

rev 49103 : 8197405: Improve messages of AbstractMethodErrors and IncompatibleClassChangeErrors.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, mdoerr, njian

@@ -506,10 +506,13 @@
   //     and the package separators as '/'.
   virtual const char* signature_name() const;
 
   const char* class_loader_and_module_name() const;
 
+  // Returns "interface", "abstract class" or "class".
+  const char* external_kind() const;
+
   // type testing operations
 #ifdef ASSERT
  protected:
   virtual bool is_instance_klass_slow()     const { return false; }
   virtual bool is_array_klass_slow()        const { return false; }