RFR 8209087: Clean up runtime code that compares 'this' to NULL

[Harold David Seigel]

Thanks Lois!

Harold


On 10/17/2018 12:26 PM, Lois Foltan wrote:
> Looks good.
> Lois
>
> On 10/17/2018 9:05 AM, Harold David Seigel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review this JDK-12 fix for JDK-8209087.  This fix removes 
>> comparisons of 'this' to 'NULL' from the three remaining methods 
>> containing this code.  Callers of these methods were looked at to see 
>> if their calling object might be NULL.  If so, then checks for NULL 
>> were added to these callers.
>>
>> Open Webrev: 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_8209087/webrev/index.html
>>
>> JBS Bug:  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8209087
>>
>> The fix was tested by running Mach5 tiers 1 and 2 tests and builds on 
>> Linux-x64, Windows, and Mac OS X, running tiers 3-5 tests on 
>> Linux-x64, and by running JCK-12 Lang and VM tests on Linux-x64.
>>
>> Thanks, Harold
>>
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