Review Request CR#7118743 : Alternative Hashing for String with Hash-based Maps [private fields]

[Rémi Forax]

On 05/25/2012 11:55 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
> In case it's not clear, by JVM not allowing them I simply mean that it
> doesn't know about nested classes (not a first class concept), so since
> it's emulated by javac, javac creates these package private synthetic
> accessors.

BTW, the VM knows what an anonymous class is
(there is an host class field in the runtime class meta-data),
it's more a class format issue now, i.e. the class format
doesn't support to put more than one class in a .class
classfile.

Rémi

>
> Sent from my phone
> On May 25, 2012 5:50 PM, "Vitaly Davidovich"<vitalyd at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> This is specific to private fields in inner classes - java allows access
>> to them from the outer class, but the JVM doesn't so javac generates
>> synthetic accessor methods for them.  Don't think it's a problem for JIT
>> compiler though as it should inline them.
>>
>> Sent from my phone
>> On May 25, 2012 5:23 PM, "Ulf Zibis"<Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de>  wrote:
>>
>>> Am 25.05.2012 22:30, schrieb Jeff Hain:
>>>
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>>   In HashMap, the class Holder should not declare the static final fields
>>>>> 'private' because the compiler will generate an accessor in that case,
>>>>>
>>>> I wasn't aware that making fields private could have a downside
>>>> (other than making them non-visible).
>>>>
>>>> Could you, or anyone, please give (a link to) more info about this?
>>>>
>>> I'm interested too.
>>>
>>> -Ulf
>>>
>>>