Review Request: JDK-8235521: Replacement API for Unsafe::ensureClassInitialized

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/06/2020 17:55, Paul Sandoz wrote:
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> FWIW I keep tripping over the prefix “ensures”.  As I understand the implementation initializes a class, if not already so (and it has to check as you point out below). Focusing on the main action seems appropriate in this regard. I expect John has more context on the naming.
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One thing to mention is that some of the java.util classes have 
ensureCapacity methods, also have an EnsureXXX methods in JNI to ensure 
capacity. I've used ensureXXX in a few places to ensure that something 
is done before going further. Is it that this ensure method returns the 
Class rather than void?

-Alan.