Request for Review: minor VM class loading change

[Alan Bateman]

On 17/05/2012 18:03, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>
> So is the ultimate goal then to move away from having JDK classes 
> always return null for getClassLoader()?  Or will that behavior remain?
When running with a classpath then everything should work as it does 
today and so it should return null.

When running with modules then the question splits into a question for 
classes loaded by the "base" module and classes in other platform 
modules (all would previously have been loaded by the bootstrap class 
loader and so getClassLoader would have returned null). For the classes 
in the base module then it's still an open question and there are good 
questions to have it return a module class loader even though they are 
actually loaded by the VM built-in bootstrap loader. For classes in 
other modules then getClassLoader will return the appropriate 
ModuleClassLoader for that module.

-Alan