RFR (L) JDK-8209301: JVM rename is_anonymous, host_klass to unsafe specific terminology ahead of Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass deprecation

mandy chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Thu Aug 16 20:41:38 UTC 2018


Hi Lois,

This looks good to me.  It's good to see the renaming that will help
clear any confusion in the future.

Mandy

On 8/16/18 1:17 PM, Lois Foltan wrote:
> Ahead of the work to support a new MethodHandle.Lookup functionality to 
> define an anonymous or other class within the context of a hosted class, 
> (see JDK-8171335), please review this clean up to use the terminology of 
> "is_unsafe_anonymous" instead of "is_anonymous" for classes defined to 
> the VM via Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass.  InstanceKlass' "host_klass" 
> method has also been renamed to "unsafe_anonymous_host" in order to 
> avoid confusion with "nest_host".  It is not anticipated that 
> JDK-8171335 work will use the same "anonymous" terminology.
> 
> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lfoltan/bug_jdk8209301/webrev/
> bug link at https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8209301
> 
> Testing: hs-tier1-4, jdk-tier1-3 (complete)
>                 hs-tier4-5 (in progress)
> 
> Thanks,
> Lois


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