[9] RFR (S): 8157181: Compilers accept modification of final fields outside initializer methods

[Zoltán Majó]

Hi Coleen,


On 06/14/2016 04:34 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
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> I would vote for pre-deprecating or removing the flag.  We don't 
> generally add flags for new spec enforcement unless we anticipate a 
> lot of customers having problems with the new rule.

OK.

> Just make sure the error message is really good though, so that when 
> people hit this new rule, they'll know what to fix.

The change I propose tries to make the error message a bit more 
informative, please see the changes to linkResolver.cpp in the webrev:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zmajo/8157181/webrev.11/src/share/vm/interpreter/linkResolver.cpp.sdiff.html

I hope that is good enough.

Thank you and best regards,


Zoltan

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> Coleen
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>> Best regards,
>> Vladimir Ivanov
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