<i18n dev> RFR: JDK-8285932 Implementation of JEP-430 String Templates (Preview) [v7]

[Jorn Vernee]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 00:09:21 GMT, David Schlosnagle <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jim Laskey has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Add @SafeVarargs declarations
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/runtime/TemplateSupport.java line 201:
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>> 199:     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
>> 200:     public static <E> List<E> toList(E... elements) {
>> 201:         return JUCA.listFromTrustedArrayNullsAllowed(elements);
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> Is this public method leaking access to the JUCA shared secrets method here?

Yes, this is leaking access. I suppose this is public because it is called from `javac` generated code. But, from the perspective of the runtime, code generated by `javac` is the same as any other arbitrary non-trusted bytecode.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10889