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

[Neil Richards]

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

Regards,
Neil

[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/09b0d78dfde9

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 13:04 +0100, Seán Coffey 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
> >>>
> >>> 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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