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

Sat Dec 19 10:31:55 UTC 2020

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:16:31 GMT, Aleksei Efimov <aefimov at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 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
>
> Thank you for checking `HttpURLConnection` and `Socket`.
> The latest version looks good to me.

This issue is blocked by [8258657][1]. It should not be integrated until after 8258657 has been resolved. The JIRA issues have been linked up to reflect this.

[1]: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8258657

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