RFR: JDK-8274977: Remove expandPacked and extendEdge from awt_ImagingLib.c

Tue Oct 12 07:40:47 UTC 2021

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:10:17 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <serb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > both functions expandPacked and extendEdge are already unused/unreferenced in jdk11u. So I wonder what usages are planned for them and when.
> 
> It is necessary to dig into the history of this file, and related bugs in JBS to say how these methods were planned to use.

Searching JBS for the 2 functions did not bring me much useful results (no surprise, no one will fix unused code).
Looking into jdk8u history, seems the functions came with "Initial load" in 2007 (!) 

https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/annotate/37a05a11f281/src/share/native/sun/awt/medialib/awt_ImagingLib.c#l1721

Best regards, Matthias

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5866