Review Request for 8025799: Restore sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass(int)

[David Holmes]

Hi Mandy,

Note that unless you push both hotspot and jdk changes through the same 
forest you will need separate bugs for each part. You will also need a 
HSX committer to do the hotspot push.

David

On 7/10/2013 6:24 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
> JDK 8 was feature complete in June and there just isn't sufficient time
> remaining to get agreement and feedback on an API to examine the caller
> frames. To that end, I propose to restore the old unsupported
> Reflection.getCallerClass(int) and that we will look to define a
> standard API for JDK 9.
>
> Webrev at:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk8/webrevs/8025799/
>
> It remains to be an unsupported API and JDK should not use this method
> and it's not annotated with @CallerSensitive.  I considered detecting if
> this method is called by a system class (loaded by null loader) and
> throw an error.  I decided to minimize the compatibility risk in case if
> there is any existing code added to the bootclasspath depending on this
> private API.
>
> Thanks
> Mandy