On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:58:54 GMT, Alex Menkov <amen...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> com.sun.jdi.ObjectReference::setValue spec says that final static fields > cannot be modified, but openjdk implementation throws > IllegalArgumentException for any final fields (static or instance). > > The fix updates the spec to prohibit any final field modification > CSR: JDK-8281652 So changing the spec would make Eclipse non-compliant. Perhaps to bring the spec and implementation in-line we have to make the implementation behaviour allowable by the spec but not required - that is what we often do in other areas (e.g. JNI spec - my personal point of experience). But I remain surprised/perplexed that a debugger would not be allowed to change a final field. Can't we still change final fields via reflection anyway? (I know the constraints have been tightening in that area.) ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11279
