Review Request: 8238358: Implementation of JEP 371: Hidden Classes

[Mandy Chung]

On 3/27/20 4:01 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Mandy,
>
> On 28/03/2020 8:29 am, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> Hi Vicente,
>>
>> hasNestmateAccess is about VM supports static nestmates on JDK 
>> release  >= 11.
>>
>> However this is about javac --release 14 and the compiled classes may 
>> run on JDK 14 that lambda and string concat spin classes that are not 
>> nestmates. I have a patch with Jan's help:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/valhalla/webrevs/8171335/webrev-javac-target-release-14/index.html 
>
>
> +             /**
> +              * The VM does not support access across nested classes 
> (8010319).
> +              * Were that ever to change, this should be removed.
> +              */
> +             boolean isPrivateInOtherClass() {
>
> I'm not at all sure what this means - access across different nests? 
> (I'm not even sure what that means.)

This just reverts  the old code that I removed.

What this method is trying to determine if it accesses a private in 
another class in the same nest (nested classes) that needs a synthetic 
bridge method to access.

Mandy
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