On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 12:12:59 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <cole...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I am still missing what can actually set a PD here, sorry. ?? > > Because the field is final, it has to be initialized in the constructor in > Java code. My initial patch for modifiers chose to initialize to zero but > that's not quite correct. The constructor cannot be called nor can it be > made accessible with setAccessible(). So the constructor for > java.lang.Class is essentially the Hotspot code JavaClasses::create_mirror(). > This is where the PD is assigned. Okay so this pattern of assigning the final fields in the constructor that is never called is just for appeasing the javac compiler. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23396#discussion_r1948769808
