JDK 14 RFR of JDK-8199424: consider removing ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream native methods

[Joe Darcy]

Hi Brian,

Now including ObjectInputStream changes:

      http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8199424.1/

Serialization regression tests still all pass.

Thanks,

-Joe

On 9/19/2019 5:19 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> This looks good. Will there be a similar separate patch for 
> ObjectInputStream?
>
> Brian
>
>> On Sep 19, 2019, at 3:34 PM, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com 
>> <mailto:joe.darcy at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> As part of my serialization work, I noticed some "to do" notes in 
>> ObjectOutputStream.java to get rid of two native methods once the 
>> integral <-> floating-point bitwise conversion methods 
>> (Float.floatToIntBits, etc.) were intrinsified. That intrinsification 
>> occurred many releases back and the recommended cleanup can be done 
>> now. Pre-existing bug for this issue:
>>
>>      JDK-8199424 : consider removing ObjectInputStream and 
>> ObjectOutputStream native methods
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8199424.0/
>>
>> Note the logic controlling for copying the float bytes is the same as 
>> the logic for copying the int bytes as both int and float are 4 
>> bytes, same relationship between the copying of double and long bytes.
>