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

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/01/2013 23:55, Doug Lea wrote:
>
> Thanks to Alan and Aleksey for noticing this and to Chris for
> offering some serialPersistentFields incantations!
>
> (The only way to serialize a TLR represents a strange abuse to
> begin with. You'd need to save the result of
> ThreadLocalRandom.current() in a field of a serialized object.
> Which would be a terrible idea ...)
It does seem nonsensical. Given that the padding isn't used then the 
simplest thing might be to do "nothing", meaning treat this update as an 
API change that changes the serialized form. I don't see any 
compatibility issues as deserialization on an older release will just 
leave the padding fields with their default values (and as they are 
unused then it shouldn't matter). I think this would be simplest than 
adding serialPersistentFields and a writeObject to write these unused 
fields.

-Alan