RFR: 8258422: Cleanup unnecessary null comparison before instanceof check in java.base [v4]

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:32:12 GMT, Andrey Turbanov <github.com+741251+turbanoff at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 8258422: Cleanup unnecessary null comparison before instanceof check in java.base
>
> Andrey Turbanov has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   8258422: Cleanup unnecessary null comparison before instanceof check in java.base
>   take advantage of "flow scoping" to eliminate casts

src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/misc/Signal.java line 102:

> 100:      */
> 101:     public boolean equals(Object other) {
> 102:         if (this == other) {

It might be a bit cleaner to rename Object other to "obj" to avoid having Object other and Signal other1.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/20