magic reflection access checks

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 16:05 -0700, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm talking about during our bootstrap before we've generated any reflection 
> classes that it must be true so we never try to do the MagicAccessorImpl 
> subclass test.  Once we're done with bootstrap MagicAccessorImpl is loaded so 
> the subclass tests work fine.  You originally asked how we performed access 
> checks if MagicAccessorImpl wasn't loaded and the answer is that there's a very 
> small window during bootstrap where it isn't loaded and during that window it 
> isn't needed.

Ahh, sorry, then I wasn't clear enough.  I didn't mean
sun/reflect/MagicAccessorImpl is not loaded, but e.g.
sun/reflect/GeneratedConstructorAccessor1 isn't resolved when the
access-checks happen and the sub-class test on
sun/reflect/GeneratedConstructorAccessor1 does not work.

But when trying to resolve sun/reflect/GeneratedConstructorAccessor1,
obviously access-checks have to happen and these try to do _again_
sub-class tests on sun/reflect/GeneratedConstructorAccessor1.

See the problem?  And I wonder how HotSpot can do that?

- twisti