I wasn't 100% clear on the desire to not add another preloaded class, and I was under the impression that if s.m.Unsafe could not load, then things were hosed indeed. If there's another already preloaded class that would be a good choice, it is an easy change to make; MethodHandleNatives, or others in the java.lang.invoke world, also seem potentially appropriate, though there is also a possibility that someone might want to backport this to 7 (I can demonstrate the bug in 6, and I suspect also in 5 if I could get my hands on such a VM) so we need to be aware of that, too (I am not myself 100% clear on which of those files appeared when, except that sun.misc.Unsafe has been around for a while).
David On 2013-11-25, at 4:49 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: > HI David, > > Just curious: why did you chose to add the method, throwIllegalAccessError, > to s.m.Unsafe and add Unsafe to the list pre-loaded classes rather than > modifying an existing pre-loaded class? > > Paul. > > > >
