--- a/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/invoke/Stable.java	Thu Jan 21 09:46:03 2016 -0800
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-/*
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-
-package java.lang.invoke;
-
-import java.lang.annotation.*;
-
-/**
- * A field may be annotated as stable if all of its component variables
- * changes value at most once.
- * A field's value counts as its component value.
- * If the field is typed as an array, then all the non-null components
- * of the array, of depth up to the rank of the field's array type,
- * also count as component values.
- * By extension, any variable (either array or field) which has annotated
- * as stable is called a stable variable, and its non-null or non-zero
- * value is called a stable value.
- * <p>
- * Since all fields begin with a default value of null for references
- * (resp., zero for primitives), it follows that this annotation indicates
- * that the first non-null (resp., non-zero) value stored in the field
- * will never be changed.
- * <p>
- * If the field is not of an array type, there are no array elements,
- * then the value indicated as stable is simply the value of the field.
- * If the dynamic type of the field value is an array but the static type
- * is not, the components of the array are <em>not</em> regarded as stable.
- * <p>
- * If the field is an array type, then both the field value and
- * all the components of the field value (if the field value is non-null)
- * are indicated to be stable.
- * If the field type is an array type with rank {@code N > 1},
- * then each component of the field value (if the field value is non-null),
- * is regarded as a stable array of rank {@code N-1}.
- * <p>
- * Fields which are declared {@code final} may also be annotated as stable.
- * Since final fields already behave as stable values, such an annotation
- * indicates no additional information, unless the type of the field is
- * an array type.
- * <p>
- * It is (currently) undefined what happens if a field annotated as stable
- * is given a third value.  In practice, if the JVM relies on this annotation
- * to promote a field reference to a constant, it may be that the Java memory
- * model would appear to be broken, if such a constant (the second value of the field)
- * is used as the value of the field even after the field value has changed.
- */
-/* package-private */
-@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
-@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@interface Stable {
-}