Re: 12 RFR(M) 8214583: AccessController.getContext may return wrong value after JDK-8212605

[dean . long]

On 12/16/18 9:52 PM, Claes Redestad wrote:
Fair enough, I wasn't aware EA was looking beyond the inlined code like
this (which means it can't be "dead" or the JIT might see through the
trick at some point). I've skimmed the existing usages in the JDK and
can't find anything that seems to be dependent on DontInline defeating
EA - maybe there was in the past, or I simply misremembered. 

Were you thinking of the pre-jdk11 implementation of 
Reference.reachabilityFence() perhaps?

dl