[lworld] RFR: 8376430: [lworld] Remove Modifier.IDENTITY

Vicente Romero vromero at openjdk.org
Tue Jan 27 19:03:45 UTC 2026


On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:09:10 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

> `java.lang.reflect.Modifier` represents Java language modifiers. Since a previous iteration of JEP 401, the "identity" source modifier is removed, and only "value" source modifier exists. As a result, "identity" is no longer qualified to be present in `Modifier`. We should migrate all its uses to `ClassFile.ACC_IDENTITY` or `AccessFlag.IDENTITY` (which already correctly identifies itself not as a source modifier).
> 
> This also avoids the headache of `Modifier.toString` clashing over `SYNCHRONIZED` versus `IDENTITY`.

lgtm

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Marked as reviewed by vromero (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1980#pullrequestreview-3712952496


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