RFR: 8198432: Remove Thread extension point

[Stefan Johansson]

On 2018-02-26 12:59, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> On 26/02/2018 8:54 PM, Stefan Johansson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review this small change to remove a now unused extension point.
>
> Unused by Oracle. While I'm glad to see this gone we need to wait and 
> see if anyone else had utilized these "extension" points.
>
True and I agree. I now have reviews for all these extension point 
removals, but to let others react I plan to wait a bit longer than the 
usual 24h before pushing them out.

Thanks,
Stefan
> Thanks,
> David
>
>> Links
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198432
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/8198432/00/
>>
>> Summary
>> The Thread class extension support made it possible to add extra data 
>> to it. This is no longer needed since the internal code using it has 
>> been removed.
>>
>> Testing
>> Built locally and through Mach5.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan