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

[David Holmes]

On 8/10/2013 3:04 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
> On 10/7/2013 9:45 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> I do plan to push them separately meaning that the jdk change will wait
> until the hotspot change is integrated.  I think the hotspot integration
> is weekly.
>
> I am not a HSX committer :(  Since I have your attention, can you
> sponsor my hotspot change?

Sure. Hotspot change is now tracked under 8026025 and being pushed to 
hotspot-rt.

David
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> Mandy
>
>> 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
>