RFR: JDK-8007373 Inet6Address serialization incompatibility

[Alan Bateman]

On 31/03/2013 15:16, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> Thanks for taking this Mark. It was my change that introduced this incompatibility.
>
> The source changes look fine to me. In fact, the removal of scope_ifname_set was not necessary for the original fix, just "bad" clean up. Also, there is no need to reset its default value where declared.
>
> The test needs the usual GPL header. We never call exit from a test, but it looks like this only possible during generation of the static byte arrays.
>
> -Chris
I'm curious if it is really necessary to re-introduce this field. Would 
there be any issues if it were just remained in the serialized form and 
written as true when scope_ifname is not null?  If there are any issues 
then the proposed change is okay (except for a minor issue with the 
comment format in readObject).

I don't have time to review the test but I assume you have reviewed it 
(it's a lot bigger than I would have expected). One comment is that 
there might be an opportunity to get rid of the existing Serialize test 
in that directory and to rename the new test.

-Alan.