RFR: 8198433: Remove WhiteBox extension point

Stefan Johansson stefan.johansson at oracle.com
Mon Feb 26 13:22:41 UTC 2018


Thanks for reviewing Thomas, Erik and David.

Cheers,
Stefan

On 2018-02-26 13:09, David Holmes wrote:
> On 26/02/2018 9:05 PM, Stefan Johansson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review this small change to remove a now unused extension point.
>
> Didn't even realize this one existed! Glad to see it gone.
>
> Probably less chance of this being used than the thread extension.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>> Links
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198433
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/8198433/00/
>>
>> Summary
>> The WhiteBox testing API extension support made it possible to add 
>> specialized native code for some test methods. This is no longer 
>> needed since the internal code using it has been removed.
>>
>> Testing
>> Built locally and through Mach5.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan



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