[8u-dev] Request for Approval to Backport: 8065172: More core reflection final and volatile annotations

[Martin Buchholz]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Ivan Gerasimov
<ivan.gerasimov at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 19.12.2014 22:38, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>
>> Again, this change was originally written without planning for a
>> backport (I might have done things a little differently), but looks
>> good!
>
>
> I though it is in line with
>     8062771: Core reflection should use final fields whenever possible
>     8064391: More thread safety problems in core reflection
>     8064846: Lazy-init thread safety problems in core reflection
>
> which had been backported earlier :-)
>
> It wouldn't hurt to integrate this also, right?

Everything is relative - previous bug fixes actually had an associated
failure seen in the wild.
And this one has some cleanup in it as well, that would typically not
be backported.
I am OK with or without a backport.  Up to you!