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

[Peter Levart]

On 01/15/2013 02:57 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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.
Should there also be a change/patch to JDK7 TLR that would "fix" the 
strange behaviour (by adding readResolve)? This would align the 
semantics no matter which direction (7/7, 7/8, 8/7, 8/8) of 
serialization/deserialization is used...

Regards, Peter