ValueTypes attribute consistency checking and static fields

2018-06-19 Thread Karen Kinnear
Frederic and I have worked on a set of proposals for ValueTypes consistency checking. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~acorn/value-types-consistency-checking-details.pdf The first part contains the proposal. The second walks through details of the consistency checking in the case of a value type

[Nestmates] Updates to the java.lang.Class docs in relation to nests

2018-06-19 Thread David Holmes
Following some extensive discussion on the JEP-181 CSR, Alex proposed a number of changes to the way we described nests and the new nest related methods in java.lang.Class. There is no normative change to the new reflection API that was added, just a change in how things are presented and