RFR: (8031737) CHECK_NULL and CHECK_EXCEPTION macros cleanup

[roger riggs]

Hi Phil,

I see your point,  there is nothing in the changes unique to 9.
Do you want to take care of the back point?

Roger

On 2/11/2014 2:04 PM, Phil Race wrote:
> Roger,
>
> Why not JDK 8u ? I've got a lot of changes  that utilise these that will
> backport cleanly to JDK 8u only if 8u includes these macros. And since
> the changes are all over the place I don't fancy copy/pasting them
> everywhere. I suspect I am not the only one who would like these in 8u ..
>
> -phil.
>
>
> On 02/03/2014 01:48 PM, roger riggs wrote:
>> Hi Lance,
>>
>> The convenience macros are only intended for JDK 9.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> On 2/1/2014 1:58 PM, Lance @ Oracle wrote:
>>> Looks fine
>>>
>>> Which releases are you think of including this in if any besides 9?
>>>
>>>
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>>> On Feb 1, 2014, at 1:03 PM, roger riggs <roger.riggs at oracle.com 
>>> <mailto:roger.riggs at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>