RFR (S) 8062307: 'Reference handler' thread triggers assert w/ TraceThreadEvents
David Holmes
david.holmes at oracle.com
Thu Oct 30 04:13:19 UTC 2014
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.
Thanks,
David
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