Accessing module internals from bytecode rewriting agent

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/06/2017 01:00, Jeremy Manson wrote:
> :
>
> The upshot is that, in the same way as we would have turned on the big 
> kill switch by default to ease the transition, we are also likely to 
> implement -Xbootclasspath/p to ease the transition.
You might find it easier to add --patch-module to your JDK 8 build 
instead. It's easy to translate a sequence of `--patch-module 
<module>=<file>(<pathsep><file>)*` options to one 
`-Xbootclasspath/p:<file>(<pathsep><file>)*`. Going the other way is not 
easy, esp. if -Xbootclasspath/p is called with a directory or JAR file 
containing classes or resources in "new" packages or where there are 
classes that are no longer defined to the boot class loader.

-Alan