Review Request JDK-8202113: Reflection API is causing caller classes to leak (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri May 11 18:20:41 UTC 2018

On 11/05/2018 17:09, mandy chung wrote:

It could but leave it as is.  I found that this change breaks the hack that uses reflection to change a static final field by changing the private modifiers field in the Field object. That is a terrible hack but I think it's better to separate this incompatibility from this issue.  I modified the fix to change the modifiers of the root and child field object be the same. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk11/webrevs/8202113/webrev.02/ Code using this hack should be seeing "Illegal reflective access" warnings today and it will eventually break. However, in the mean-time, I think what you have looks good.

-Alan

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