RFR (S) 8062307: 'Reference handler' thread triggers assert w/ TraceThreadEvents

[David Holmes]

The CCC for this trivial removal has been removed.

Still need two reviewers please.

David

On 30/10/2014 2:23 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 30/10/2014 2:13 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8062307
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8062307/webrev/
>>
>> It turns out that the little known TraceThreadEvents logic has been
>> broken since at least very early in JDK 5. A develop-only option it was
>> intended to show when different Thread methods were called (the VM side
>> of certain java.lang.Thread methods). While that sounds potentially
>> useful for debugging it seems that in practice it is not - this has been
>> broken for over 10 years with nobody noticing: it is unused. So rather
>> than fix unused code it is proposed to simply delete it instead.
>
> Correction this has been noticed in the past:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6757482 (2008-10-09 06:51)
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-March/001586.html
>
>
> David
>
>> Thanks,
>> David