Hello, please review this small patch . In the review process of 8218811 it has been noticed that ostream.cpp can be cleaned up a bit ; I want to address the cleanups with this change . Bug/webrev : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8219630 http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8219630.0/ Thanks, Matthias