RFR: 8289610: Degrade Thread.stop

[Erik Österlund]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:12:26 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > There is a bunch of VM code for this too. Should we clean that up separately?
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> Yes chatted with @dholmes-ora about this recently and he suggested separating out so there is a follow-on JBS issue created for that. Aside from JVM_StopThread, I suspect code that deals with pending exceptions before a thread start can go away as the JVM TI StopThread can't cause an async exception on an unstarted thread. I'm hoping Thread.stillborn can go away too.

Sounds good.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10230