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

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/01/2013 13:49, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>
> But wouldn't there be an issue with JDK7 TLR streams being 
> deserialized by JDK8, pad fields would be left in the Object input 
> steam? If so, then we're down the road of having to have a readObject, 
> etc... and possibly back to serialPersistentFields?
Technically deleting fields is an incompatible change as the stream will 
not contain the fields. If someone is crazy enough to serialize with 
jdk8 TLR and send it to a jdk7 release then the fields will have their 
default value (as the values aren't in the stream). As the fields aren't 
used then I don't think this should make a difference. Going the other 
way shouldn't be an issue either as the pad fields will be ignored.

-Alan.