RFR JDK-8181425: Reflection API defend against issues with internal VM derived value type

[Mandy Chung]

All MVT tests passed.

Mandy

> On Jun 20, 2017, at 3:01 PM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> That explains why i could not see what Maurizio was observing :-)
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> Paul.
> 
>> On 20 Jun 2017, at 14:50, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 20, 2017, at 1:48 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Mandy - overall looks very good. One question - is this code correct?
>>> 
>>> public static Class<?> loadValueTypeClass(Class<?> vcc, String className) {
>>> 113         if (!isValueType(vcc)) {
>>> 114             throw new IllegalArgumentException(vcc.getName() + " is a derived value class");
>>> 115         }
>>> 116         return JLA.loadValueTypeClass(vcc.getModule(), vcc.getClassLoader(), className);
>>> 117     }
>>> 
>> 
>> My bad! I added this last minute check that are in the progress of testing.
>> It intends to do the same check as getValueTypeClass.
>> 
>> if (isValueType(vcc)) {
>>   throw new IllegalArgumentException(vcc.getName() + " is a derived value class");
>> }
>> 
>> I updated webrev.00 in place.
>> 
>> Mandy
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