[lworld] setAccessible change and VarHandle test update

[Karen Kinnear]

Should unsafe also not be allowed to write to them - so final is final?

thanks,
Karen

> On Mar 8, 2018, at 4:42 PM, mandy chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 3/8/18 12:27 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> Looks good.
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> thanks.
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>>> On Mar 6, 2018, at 3:40 PM, mandy chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>>  Any other tests should be updated?
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>> There are other tests that tunnel through method handles, see VarHandleTestMethodHandleAccess*.
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> OK.  I will look at them next.
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>>> Value class is new and this is a good opportunity to enforce
>>> final is final on value classes.  So setAccessible is not
>>> supported on static final and instance fields on value types.
>>> 
>> Which also means the VM can treat these fields as final too. Is that being tracked somewhere?
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> Not sure.  I will talk with David and find out.
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> Mandy
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