RFR: 8353835: Implement JEP 500: Prepare to Make Final Mean Final [v7]

Tue Oct 7 13:43:35 UTC 2025

On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 13:29:40 GMT, Shaojin Wen <swen at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Field.set can be further simplified to reduce duplicate code.

This PR is focused on the changes for JEP 500. There may be merit in doing refactoring some time in the future but not here.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25115#issuecomment-3376952169