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Re:FFM (Foreign Function and Memory API) Goes Final by josephcsible on Monday December 11, 2023 @02:33PM (#38604360)
> an executable JAR, i.e. an application, can grant such permission in its manifest

No it can't. If it would, then the change indeed wouldn't be a problem. Oracle has removed --illegal-access=permit completely, and --add-opens doesn't let you specify wildcards.

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Re:FFM (Foreign Function and Memory API) Goes Final by pron on Monday December 11, 2023 @06:18PM (#38606831)
The question I answered was about --enable-native-access, not --add-opens. --add-opens indicates an actual problem in the program that has to be fixed, so of course we don't allow wildcards. You can still specify that in the manifest even without wildcards, though.
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