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

[Coleen Phillimore]

Change looks good.   You mean the CCC is approved, not removed.

Coleen

On 11/12/14, 6:27 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> 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