[7u] Request for approval for CR 8000955 - Hashtable.Entry.hashCode() no longer conforms to Map.Entry.hashCode()

[Neil Richards]

Thanks for the swift approval.

Now pushed to jdk7u-dev/jdk [1].

Regards,
Neil

[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/e202345c6dd3

On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 08:04 -0700, Seán Coffey wrote:
> Approved for jdk7u-dev.
> 
> regards,
> Sean.
> 
> On 19/10/2012 07:52, Neil Richards wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'd like to request approval to push 8000955 into jdk7u:
> >
> > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/5eed4a92ca8c
> >
> > It corrects a regression in conformance to the Java API that was
> > introduced by the change for "Alternative String hashing", 7126277.
> > Here is its original (jdk8) discussion thread:
> >
> > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-October/011842.html
> >
> >
> > The fix for jdk7u is similar to that in the jdk8 version.
> > However, I have added an '@run' tag to the jtreg testcase, to enable the
> > alternative string hashing to be used by the test:
> >
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ngmr/8000955/webrev.04
> >
> > Mike Duigou suggested that I should bring this forward for pushing to
> > jdk7u ASAP after its introduction into jdk8 (due to the nature of the
> > problem it addresses).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Neil
> >
> 


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