RFR: 8213741: Consolidate Object and String Stringifiers

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 11/12/2018 03:24 PM, Claes Redestad wrote:
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8213741/jdk.00/
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213741

Looks good to me.

*) Not sure this is significantly better than String.valueOf(String.valueOf(s)), as original comment
suggests:

1701                 String s;
1702                 return (value == null || (s = value.toString()) == null) ? "null" : s;

*) Do you really want new "static finals" be "private" as well? It seems to me the classes are
private already, and maybe dropping some privates help to avoid some bridge methods? (Probably
obsolete by nestmates, but still). It probably does not matter all that much for bootstrap code.

-Aleksey