On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:48:43 GMT, Alan Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Implementation changes for [JEP 500: Prepare to Make Final Mean 
>> Final](https://openjdk.org/jeps/500).
>> 
>> Field.set (and Lookup.unreflectSetter) are changed to allow/warn/debug/deny 
>> when mutating a final instance field. JFR event recorded if final field 
>> mutated. Spec updates to Field.set, Field.setAccessible and Module.addOpens 
>> to align with the proposal in the JEP.
>> 
>> HotSpot is updated to add support for the new command line options. To aid 
>> diagnosability, -Xcheck:jni reports a warning and -Xlog:jni=debug logs a 
>> message to help identity JNI code that mutates finals. For now, JNI code is 
>> allowed to set the "write-protected" fields System.in/out/err without a 
>> warning, we can re-visit once we change the System.setIn/setOut/setErr 
>> methods to not use JNI (I prefer to keep this separate to this PR because 
>> there is a small startup regression to address when changing System.setXXX).
>> 
>> There are many new tests. A small number of existing tests are changed to 
>> run /othervm as reflectively opening a package isn't sufficient. Changing 
>> the tests to /othervm means that jtreg will launch the agent with the 
>> command line options to open the package.
>> 
>> Testing: tier1-6
>
> Alan Bateman has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 50 commits:
> 
>  - Remove dup end body tag
>  - Change FinalFieldMutationEvent so that caller is top frame in stack trace
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8353835
>  - Review feedback: Add tests for setting internal properties, improve links 
> in Mutation methods page
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8353835
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8353835
>  - Fix typo in test comment
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8353835
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8353835
>  - Suppress warnings from some tests
>  - ... and 40 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/2902436f...b22947c7

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Field.java line 1543:

> 1541:      * the given possibly-null caller.
> 1542:      */
> 1543:     private String finalFieldMutationWarning(Class<?> caller, boolean 
> unreflect) {

It may make sense to have this method return a StringBuilder instance (and use 
it internally before returning it) as that would cut down on extra 
String-instance creation.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25115#discussion_r2518192839

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