[7u-dev] Request for approval to backport 8020669

[Jeff Dinkins]

Approved for jdk7u-dev.

Record keeping:

Reviewers: many in review thread below, but I believe Alan Bateman and Chris Hegarty are the ones on record as approving.


On Aug 1, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Ivan Gerasimov <ivan.gerasimov at oracle.com> wrote:
> Here's a request for approval to backport 8020669 into 7u-dev repository.
> 
> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8020669
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/8020669/0/webrev/
> JDK 8 Changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/54329c24c2f4
> JDK 8 Review Thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-July/019082.html
> 
> The jdk8-export patch doesn't clearly apply here.
> That's because, there had been another change [1] made to the same code in jdk8 that wasn't backported to jdk7.
> The proposed fix addresses both issues 8020669 and 8014928.
> 
> [1] https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8014928
> 
> Thanks,
> Ivan