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

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2020/6/3 19:31:13 -0700, mandy.chung at oracle.com:
> On 6/3/20 5:16 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> Did you consider an alternative name, such as:
>> 
>> /**
>>  * Initializes {@code targetClass}, if not already initialized.
>>  * ...
>> */
>> public Class<?> initializeClass(Class<?> targetClass) ...
>> 
>> ?
> 
> I considered this. The targetClass may have been initialized. 
> `initializeClass` seems to be read that it should check if it's 
> initialized before calling??  I also considered `ensureInitialized` 
> which can be an option. I'm open to suggestion.

I agree that the `ensure` prefix is useful here.

This method can only ensure that a class is initialized, so including
`Class` in the method name seems redundant.  I’d go with the shorter
`ensureInitialized`.

- Mark