Jol to find the offset of fields in the class

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I use jol to find the offset of the fields as below:

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

public static void main(String[] args) throws NoSuchFieldException {
    System.out.println(ClassLayout.parseClass(Field.class).toPrintable());
}

The output:

OFF  SZ   TYPE DESCRIPTION               VALUE
  0   8        (object header: mark)     N/A
  8   4        (object header: class)    N/A
 12   4        (object alignment gap)    
Instance size: 16 bytes
Space losses: 0 bytes internal + 4 bytes external = 4 bytes total

The 3rd row shows (object alignment gap) but didn't show the offset of the fields such as override, name, type and such on.

How can I get those field's offset? Or is there other ways to get the offset?

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The JOL IntelliJ Plugin shows the offset information, apparently.

Install the plugin, use Field somewhere in your code, put the cursor on the text Field, then go to Code -> Show Object Layout

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Note that there is also a selector for the JVM implementation to use.

Interestingly, using sudo with the JOL command line tool report a different size for a Field object - 72 bytes for my JVM.

$ sudo java -jar jol-cli-latest.jar internals java.lang.reflect.Field

Output excerpt:

java.lang.reflect.Field object internals:
OFF  SZ   TYPE DESCRIPTION               VALUE
  0   8        (object header: mark)     0x0000000000000005 (biasable; age: 0)
  8   4        (object header: class)    0x0006e918
 12   4        (object alignment gap)    
Instance size: 72 bytes
Space losses: 0 bytes internal + 4 bytes external = 4 bytes total