[Nestmates] RFR (S): Support access to VM annotations from nonfindable classes

[David Holmes]

Hi Lois,

On 1/11/2018 7:18 AM, Lois Foltan wrote:
> Please review the following change as part of the ongoing prototyping 
> work to support MethodHandle Lookup functionality to define a nestmate 
> class.  In particular this fix allows access to VM annotations for 
> nonfindable classes.
> 
> webrev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lfoltan/wrk_nestLookupDefineClass_annotations.1/webrev/ 

So all that effort to pass through one boolean just so it can eventually 
be used in one place:

2095   const bool privileged = 
loader_data->is_the_null_class_loader_data() ||
2096 
loader_data->is_platform_class_loader_data() ||
2097                           loader_data->is_shortlived() ||
2098                           can_access_vm_annotations;

? We definitely need to find a better way to transmit this contextual 
information. :)

Otherwise looks fine.

Are you likely to push this evening? Otherwise I will push my change and 
then you'll have the awkward merge to do.

Thanks,
David


> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171335
> 
> Thanks,
> Lois