Integrated: 8309196: Remove Thread.countStackFrames
Alan Bateman
alanb at openjdk.org
Thu Jun 8 17:32:39 UTC 2023
On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 06:40:04 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:
> Thread.countStackFrames is/was an ill-defined method that dates from JDK 1.0 for counting the stack frames of a suspended Thread. The method was deprecated in JDK 1.2 (1998), deprecated for removal in Java 9, and re-specified/degraded to throw UOE unconditionally in Java 14. Java 22 would be a fine time to finally remove this method.
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> Code that wants to count stack frames should be directed to use j.l.StackWalker, or if a tool, then it can use JVM TI and other tool APIs.
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> A corpus analysis of 30M classes in 131k artifacts from Maven Central found only 1 usages to this method. The 1 usage appears to be a class that just wraps all methods, it doesn't actually make use of it.
This pull request has now been integrated.
Changeset: b2a5271e
Author: Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org>
URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/b2a5271e7451a7546a8293fc4bc4ccfaa1ffb0d7
Stats: 20 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 17 del; 3 mod
8309196: Remove Thread.countStackFrames
Reviewed-by: rriggs, mchung, dholmes, jpai, iris
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14257
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