RFR (S): CR 8005926: (thread) Merge ThreadLocalRandom state into java.lang.Thread

[Chris Hegarty]

On 19 Feb 2013, at 18:35, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 19/02/2013 17:48, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> :
>> 
>> Taking a look at this, I don't see any reason why we can't simply do
>> (while maintaining serialization compatibility):
> Right, it's not needed and I think we had Chris persuaded on this a few weeks ago. It does change the serialized form but that it's not an issue issue and it doesn't matter that they have the default value when deserialized on an older release.

Agreed, but we do need to have this approved by the CCC. I'll follow up on this.

-Chris

> 
> -Alan.