RFR (S) 8059677: Thread.getName() instantiates Strings

[David Holmes]

On 12/11/2014 8:23 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 12.11.2014 07:48, David Holmes wrote:
>> On 12/11/2014 12:40 AM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>> All looks good to me.
>
> Thanks for the review!
>
>> But I also noticed this strange (to me) assertion in javaClasses.cpp
>>
>>   void java_lang_Thread::set_name(oop java_thread, oop name) {
>>      assert(java_thread->obj_field(_name_offset) == NULL, "name should be
>> NULL");
>>      java_thread->obj_field_put(_name_offset, name);
>>    }
>>
>> and on investigation it seems like this is dead code - I couldn't locate
>> a call to java_lang_Thread::set_name ?? It would only be usable on an
>> attaching thread (else name can't be null) and we pass the name to the
>> Thread constructor in that case.
>
> set_name is not used, as I mentioned earlier -- that makes the change

Sorry, I missed that comment.

> even more "safe". I was even tempted to drop the setter completely, but
> it would break the symmetry against other setters and getters. I dropped
> the assert at set_name in this update:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8059677/webrev.03.hs/
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8059677/webrev.03.jdk/
>
> The only difference against the previous version is the dropped assert,
> so I haven't re-spinned the tests.

OK. I'm more inclined to delete unused code but it is fine as is.

Thanks,
David


> Thanks,
> -Aleksey.
>