The CONSTANT_Utf8_info structure is used to represent constant string values. UTF-8 strings are encoded in the same way as described in The Java Virtual Machine Specification (§ 4.4.7).

The CONSTANT_Utf8_info structure is:

The items of the CONSTANT_Utf8_info structure are the following:

tag

The tag item has the value of CONSTANT_Utf8 (1).

length

The value of the length item gives the number of bytes in the bytes array (not the length of the resulting string). The strings in the CONSTANT_Utf8_info structure are not null-terminated.

bytes[]

The bytes array contains the bytes of the string. No byte may have the value (byte)0 or (byte)0xF0-(byte)0xFF.