Request for approval: 7121314 : Behavior mismatch between AbstractCollection.toArray(T[] ) and its spec

[David Holmes]

On 3/09/2012 9:08 PM, Seán Coffey wrote:
>> Behavior mismatch between AbstractCollection.toArray(T[] ) and its spec
> Is such a correction in an update allowed now ? Even if it is a
> correction to original (released) behaviour ? This may be harmless but
> I'm checking to be sure.
>
> David, Mike, Sean - what are your thoughts here ? Does this need further
> discussion with conformance/compatibility engineers ?

I don't have an issue with it. I can't imagine anyone relying on it 
working the way it had been as the whole thing depends on a race 
condition anyway.

David

> regards,
> Sean.
>
> On 03/09/2012 09:54, Sean Chou wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here is a request for porting fix 7121314 back to JDK7, could you please
>> help review?
>>
>> Bug is: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7121314
>>
>> Changeset is: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/e06ea0dd9207
>>
>> Thread where it was reviewed:
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-March/009561.html
>>
>>
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