On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:54:34 GMT, Chen Liang <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Currently, the hotspot compiler (as in ciField) trusts final fields in 
>> hidden classes, record classes, and selected jdk packages. Some classes in 
>> the JDK wish to be trusted, but they cannot apply package-wide opt-in due to 
>> other legacy classes in the package, such as java.util.
>> 
>> They currently can use `@Stable` as a workaround, but this is fragile 
>> because a stable final field may hold a trusted null, zero, or false value, 
>> which is currently treated as non-constant by ciField.
>> 
>> We should add an annotation to opt-in for a whole class, mainly for legacy 
>> packages. This would benefit greatly some of our classes already using a lot 
>> of Stable, such as java.util.Optional, whose empty instance is now 
>> constant-foldable, as demonstrated in a new IR test.
>> 
>> Paging @minborg who requested Optional folding for review.
>> 
>> I think we can remove redundant Stable in a few other java.util classes 
>> after this patch is integrated. I plan to do that in subsequent patches.
>
> Chen Liang has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge 
> or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in 
> by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 14 additional commits since 
> the last revision:
> 
>  - Recommended test tweaks
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into 
> feature/class-final-trusting
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into 
> feature/class-final-trusting
>  - Jorn review
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into 
> feature/class-final-trusting
>  - bracket styles
>  - Doc tweaks
>  - Essay
>  - Spurious change
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into 
> feature/class-final-trusting
>  - ... and 4 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/c6348e62...567e8925

Marked as reviewed by alanb (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28540#pullrequestreview-3587543908

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