Reviewer and committer request for 7198496

[Paul Sandoz]

On Oct 4, 2012, at 11:34 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> These parts of the javadoc for get/setContextClassLoader are simply wrong.
>>> 
>> 
>> Wrong or not because of such JavaDoc developers have been coding using TCCL with certain expectations of "null" different to that of just meaning the bootstrap CL.
>> 
>> How would you propose to fix it?
> 
> I don't see anything that actually needs fixing (apart from the javadoc). Anyone using getCCL has to expect null as a possibility and they are then free to proceed however they like. The obvious ways to proceed are as I outlined earlier:
> - use current classloader
> - use system loader
> - use bootstrap loader
> 

So you are proposing to widen the scope? since i interpret the current JavaDoc to correspond to only the latter two options.

Paul.