RFR[9]: 8178832: (ref) jdk.lang.ref.disableClearBeforeEnqueue property is ignored

[Peter Levart]

Hi Mandy, Kim,

On 04/17/2017 10:53 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> On Apr 17, 2017, at 1:47 PM, Kim Barrett <kim.barrett at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Please review this fix for a bug in JDK-8175797: the mechanism
>> provided by that change for reverting to the old behavior of
>> Reference.enqueue (for backward compatibility) does not work.
>>
>> Also fixed the ReferenceEnqueue test changes also made as part of
>> JDK-8175797.  That test would havecaught the problem with the property
>> but for bugs in the test.
>>
>> CR:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178832
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8178832/jdk00/
> Looks good.  Thanks for catching this and the typo in the test.
>
> Mandy

I wonder if there are (or will be) other places where such silent 
swallowing of run-time exceptions happens or will happen. Wouldn't it be 
good to "fix" Boolean.getBoolean() and friends?

I filed the following bug to track this:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178966

Regards, Peter