Review Request JDK-8202113: Reflection API is causing caller classes to leak

[Alan Bateman]

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