sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/ClassFile.doc.html This is used by the annotation frameworks to quickly scan .class files for the presence of annotations. This avoid the annotation framework having to load each .class file in the class loader.
@author Jerome Dochez
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