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

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Chris,

Looks good for me.

PS:

Inet6Address.java:

It's not necessary to remove explicit initializations - compiler do it
perfectly for you.

-Dmitry

On 2012-12-10 20:01, 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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