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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