RFR: 8367014: Rename class Atomic to AtomicAccess

Andrew Haley aph at openjdk.org
Mon Sep 8 10:18:14 UTC 2025


On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 09:44:26 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > `AtomicAccess` is a bit wordy, and this change is going to mess up diffs for backports terribly, but I can't think of a better way to do it. Thanks.
> 
> There was a bunch of internal to Oracle bike shedding over the names already. 

Sure, I imagine there was! It's a shame when decision making happens behind closed doors in a FOSS project, but public list bikeshedding would have been too much for this change.

> Diffs for backports are going to get messed up anyway, since most uses of `AtomicAccess` will eventually be switched over to `Atomic<T>` style usage.

That's fair.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27135#issuecomment-3265596419


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