[ibm vme] final fields cannot be set accessible

• Key: HARMONY-5200
• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vasily Zakharov
• Component/s: VM

Description

The following simple test fails:

import java.lang.reflect.*;
public class TestField {
    final public int g = 3;
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        TestField t = new TestField();
        Field f = t.getClass().getField("g");
        f.setAccessible(true);
        f.set(t, 4);
        System.out.println(t.g);
    }
}

Output on RI:

3

Output on Harmony/IBM VME:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessException
        at java.lang.reflect.Field.setImpl(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Field.set(Field.java:430)
        at Test.main(Test.java:8)

See the last comment at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/XSTR-379

The similar issue exists for DRLVM: HARMONY-5199