Trust final fields in records

[Chris Hegarty]

> On 12 Jun 2020, at 02:52, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> I can sponsor your patch.  I create https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8247444.

This is great. I remember thinking (saying?) similar when we settled on record serialization not needing to muck around with field stuffing (among the motivating factors for how records deserialize). This is a great step forward, nice to see it progressing.

-Chris.