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

[Coleen Phillimore]

On 6/15/16 8:03 AM, Zoltán Majó wrote:
> Hi Coleen,
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> 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.
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> OK.
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>> Just make sure the error message is really good though, so that when 
>> people hit this new rule, they'll know what to fix.
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> The change I propose tries to make the error message a bit more 
> informative, please see the changes to linkResolver.cpp in the webrev:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zmajo/8157181/webrev.11/src/share/vm/interpreter/linkResolver.cpp.sdiff.html 
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> I hope that is good enough.

These messages and this change looks good (looked at cdiff because 
sdiffs don't look right).

Thanks,
Coleen
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> Thank you and best regards,
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>
> Zoltan
>
>>
>> Coleen
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Vladimir Ivanov
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