RFR: 8346567: Make Class.getModifiers() non-native

[Dan Heidinga]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:06:54 GMT, Viktor Klang <vklang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I don't think this needs to be stable - finals in java.lang is trusted by the JIT compiler.
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> Yeah, I was just thinking whether something set from inside the VM which is marked @Stable is constant-folded :)

@viktorklang-ora `@Stable` is not about how the field was set, but about the JIT observing a  non-default value at compile time.  If it observes a non-default value, it can treat it as a compile time constant.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22652#discussion_r1880692608