Fields Data Structure - BML Reference Manual

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3.2 Fields Data Structure

The fields data structure is an array of field structure items. Each item consists of:

access flags (private/public/protected, static, final, volatile, transient)
field name reference (an index in the constant pool)
descriptor reference (an index in the constant pool to the type of the field)
attributes - an array of attributes

The last item is an array of additional attributes that provide additional information about the field. Each Java Virtual Machine must recognize attributes ConstantValue, Synthetic, and Deprecated.

The BML related field attributes are described in Field Attributes.