Review Request: JDK-8001334 - Remove use of JVM_* functions from java.io code

[Alan Bateman]

On 07/03/2013 13:21, Alexey Utkin wrote:
> Can I say two word about the file
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dxu/8001334/webrev.01/src/windows/native/java/io/io_util_md.c.frames.html 
>
> and function
>      getLastErrorString(char *buf, size_t len)
>
> Here is the documentation for [FormatMessage]:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/ms679351%28v=vs.85%29.aspx 
>
> if you are using ASCII version of FormatMessage that is a good idea 
> to  have the direct reference to [FormatMessageA], not define.
>
> The second word is about the third world countries: Russia and China.
> Windows OS has localized version. The error messages on that systems 
> would contains only [?] in the worst case.
>
It's good to re-examine this but just to mention that this is just 
bringing over what is in os::lasterror (in 
hotspot/src/os/windows/vm/os_windows.cpp).

-Alan