RFR: 8337622: IllegalArgumentException in java.lang.reflect.Field.get

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 18:32:18 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Make the object init_lock be an injected field in the mirror so that reflecting on componentType will not inadvertently return the init_lock.  The init_lock is a Java object and the VM holds it during class linking and uses it to set state during class initialization.
> Tested with tier1-8.

Yes, thanks for pointing that out.  JDK 21 backported the fix to JDK-8333542 to restore the init_lock oop, so has this breakage also.  This is also broken with JDK 11 and 17 but those releases don't throw IllegalArgumentException.

Thank you for the code review, Aleksey.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20498#issuecomment-2274308820
PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20498#issuecomment-2274309351