Request for Review: minor VM class loading change

[David M. Lloyd]

On 05/17/2012 11:51 AM, Karen Kinnear wrote:
>
> Please review a minor change for the VM to handle a non-null base module loader. I've also
> added a new (potentially temporary) API JVM_GetModuleLoader to allow us to incrementally clean up logic that assumes
> that JVM_GetClassLoader returns null for the bootclasspath.
>
> Within the VM, we will continue to use null to represent module classes loaded by the vm.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~acorn/non-null-module-loader/webrev/

So is the ultimate goal then to move away from having JDK classes always 
return null for getClassLoader()?  Or will that behavior remain?


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