JDK 9 RFR of 8032397: Remove sun.misc.Ref

[Mandy Chung]

On 1/21/2014 5:17 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Updated webrev at
>
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8032397.1/
>

Looks good to me.

> @see in sun.misc.Ref removed.
>
> Regression tests updated to not refer to sun.misc.Ref.
>
> I looked at the use of Ref in jhat and it is only used if 
> java.lang.ref.Reference is not found reflectively, so I think the 
> existing code can stay in place.
>

I think it's actually better to update jhat and take out the fallback to 
lookup sun.misc.Ref class as it was there to handle 1.1.x heap dump so 
that sun.misc.Ref is "entirely" removed.

Mandy