RFR JDK-8205540: hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/jdb/trace/trace001/trace001.java fails with Debuggee did not exit after 15 <cont> commands

[Alan Bateman]

On 23/06/2018 11:11, Peter Levart wrote:
> Please review the following tiny change that delays 
> TerminatingThreadLocal class initialization until the 1st thread that 
> actually uses thread locals, exits:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk-dev/8205540_TerminatingThreadLocal.opt/webrev.01/ 
>
>
> Since JDK-8202788 has been pushed, a hotspot/jdb test started failing:
>
>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8205540
>
> ...presumably because it is not expecting so many instructions to be 
> executed at thread exit. This patch might help silence the test. Even 
> if it doesn't silence the test, it is a change that delays one class 
> initialization until it is needed and this is good.
This looks okay. I assume an alternative would have been to change the test.

-Alan