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

[Seán Coffey]

Good point on it having to be a race condition. OK - sounds reasonable 
for backport then.

Sean - I've created a bug record for you. Will update when I see your push.

regards,
Sean.

On 03/09/2012 12:16, David Holmes wrote:
> 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 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>