RFR (M): JDK-8159262: Walking PackageEntry Export and ModuleEntry Reads Must Occur Only When Neccessary And Wait Until ClassLoader's Aliveness Determined

[Alan Bateman]

On 22/06/2016 13:51, David Holmes wrote:
>
> How do you envisage any system classloader "dying" ??
The system class loader (be it the built-in application class loader or 
a custom system class loader configured via -Djava.system.class.loader) 
will/can never be GC'ed. ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader() always 
returns a reference to it (for example).

-Alan