RFR: 8294271: make bootcycle-images fails after JDK-8289610

Fri Sep 23 12:04:22 UTC 2022

On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:34:33 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Since `ThreadDeath` would be deprecated soon, I assume it's fine to just remove it.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> Best regards,
>> Jie
>
> This looks fine, and the current use of `ThreadDeath` does not even seem correct (you have to rethrow it). But I wonder if this should be the subtask of https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8289610, like "Remove use of ThreadDeath from make utilities"?

The fix looks good. @shipilev, what would the benefit be of having this as a subtask? To me it sounds just like additional bureaucracy, at least given the fact that this was now in fact created as a separate bug report.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10406