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

[Ivan Gerasimov]

Thanks Martin for clarification!

I'll hold off backporting this fix then.
If this is needed later, it can easily be applied.

Sincerely yours,
Ivan

On 20.12.2014 1:17, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> 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!
>
>