Re: --permit-illegal-access and non-reflective access

2017-04-24 Thread Alan Bateman
On 24/04/2017 14:53, Sander Mak wrote: : What's the idea behind this distinction? The Test class fails just as well with an IllegalAccessException without the --permit-illegal-access flag. Only, I don't get to see the problem when running with --permit-illegal-access unless the access is don

--permit-illegal-access and non-reflective access

2017-04-24 Thread Sander Mak
I was trying out the --permit-illegal-access flag with a simple class that uses an encapsulated type from the JDK by (non-reflectively) instantiating it in the main method: $ java Test Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessError: class Test (in unnamed module @0x7b3300e5) cannot acc