RFR: Small cleanups in java.lang.ref

[Martin Buchholz]

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 3:26 AM, Thomas Schatzl <thomas.schatzl at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 18:31 -0700, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> > I've been confused by NULL vs null for years.
> >
> > 8203327: Small cleanups in java.lang.ref
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/jdk/Reference-cleanup/
> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8203327
>
>   JDK-8203028 which is currently out for review (http://cr.openjdk.java
> .net/~kbarrett/8203028/open.02) changes and fixes the comments in that
> respect apart from other significant changes to reference processing.
>
> Pushing this cleanup would just cause merge conflicts for us (the gc
> team). So this change does not seem to be required any more, i.e. do
> you mind retracting this RFR and closing this change as duplicate of
> the other?
>
> (I apologize if my speech is too direct, I do not want to offend)
>

On the contrary, I'm very happy to see gc team actively maintaining
java.lang.ref.
I've reverted changes to Reference.java

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/jdk/Reference-cleanup-1/