RFR 8004675: Inet6Address.getHostAddress should use string scope identifier where available

[Kurchi Hazra]

Looks good to me.

Not related to this bug, but do we need scope_id_set then? From what I 
infer, scope_id_set is being set in native code, only when
scope_id is not 0, and so a check with scope_id == 0 can serve the 
purpose of scope_id_set too.

Thanks,
Kurchi

On 10.12.2012 08:01, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>
> Inet6Address.getHostAddress() is specified to return the IP address 
> string in textual presentation, followed by a '%' character and the 
> scope identifier. This scope identifier can be either a numeric value 
> or a string, depending on how the instance was created (if it was 
> created with a scoped interface).
>
> This change proposes to remove the boolean field, 'scope_ifname_set', 
> since it is not always correctly set when the instance contains a 
> valid scoped interface. For example, when iterating over the 
> NetworkInterface's on the system. 'scope_ifname_set' was never 
> accessed from native code, so it can simply be removed.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8004675/webrev.00/webrev/
>
> -Chris.

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-Kurchi