RFR: 8376271: ZipFile comment confusingly refers to "native" ZIP file implementation

[Eirik Bjørsnøs]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:57:52 GMT, Eirik Bjørsnøs <eirbjo at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this comment-only PR  which updates a field comment referring to `ZipFile.Source` as "native".
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> ZipFile has not used a native implementation since Java 8, so this comment may be confusing.
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> The comment seems to have been introduced in 2017 as part of JDK-8185582 when ZipFile was updated to use Cleaners instead of finalizers. (The use of quotation marks in "native" may have meant to indicate that this is "not really native", but I still find it confusing).
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> While visiting this comment, I also made an attempt to make the leading sentence of this field comment less mysterious. 
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> Comment only, trivial, low risk: `noreg-trivial`

Thanks for reviewing this code comment improvement!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29401#issuecomment-3804347459