8205132: Remove Thread.countStackFrames()

[David Holmes]

Looks good Alan!

I'm guessing there may be a JCK update required somewhere to go with this.

Thanks,
David

On 23/10/2019 5:25 pm, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 
> Thread::countStackFrames has been deprecated for 20+ years and has been 
> marked for-removal since Java SE 9. I'd like to remove it for Java SE 
> 14. It's was never a well-defined method and I've been unable to find 
> anything that uses it. The StackWalker API is a much better solution for 
> code that is interested in the number of stack frames.
> 
> The changes to remove this method are here:
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8205132/webrev/
> 
> The CSR will need a Reviewer:
>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232654
> 
> -Alan