RFR: 8229372: Static inline fields should allow circularity.

[David Simms]

All in all it looks good...

I did need to re-read the code back (a second time) from 
src/hotspot/share/interpreter/interpreterRuntime.cpp:400, the point was 
the CHECK macros as per the intro comment should throw and the fatal not 
be reached. fatal() message says this.

Cheer, thanks for the fix Frederic !

On 2019-08-13 21:42, Frederic Parain wrote:
> Greeting,
>
> Here’s a changeset to relax the circularity rules
> for static fields.
>
> The handling of erroneous situations is not great,
> but relaxing rules could allow explorations at
> the language level. Error handling would have to
> be fixed later (it requires to store the error on
> first initialization failure, in order to throw exactly
> the same error on further attempts to initialize the field).
>
> CR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8229372
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~fparain/statics2/webrev.00/index.html
>
> Thank you,
>
> Fred