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

[Sean Chou]

Thank you !

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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<http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7121314>
>>>>
>>>> Changeset is: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/**jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/e06ea0dd9207<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<http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-March/009561.html>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>


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Best Regards,
Sean Chou