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

[Kim Barrett]

> On Apr 19, 2017, at 2:51 PM, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 19, 2017, at 2:02 AM, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> I filed the following bug to track this:
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>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178966
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> Thanks for creating the issue.  I fully agree that we should fix this and silent swallowing the exceptions makes the underlying problem unnoticed.
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> Your proposed patch looks good to me.  NPE would be thrown if it’s called before the system properties are initialized. 
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> Mandy

This looks like a good idea to me too.