RFR [9] 8145544: Move sun.misc.VM to jdk.internal.misc

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Mon Jan 4 14:37:54 UTC 2016


On 04/01/16 14:16, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 04/01/2016 14:02, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> sun.misc.VM provides a low-level interface for a small number
>> of specific operations with the VM. In preparation for JEP 260,
>> this class should be moved out of sun.misc and located in a
>> non-exported package [.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8145544/00/
>>
>> Note: as in other areas some tests that require access to
>> internal APIs have been updated to use types from a more
>> stable package, sun.security.x509.
> This looks okay to me.

Thanks Alan.

 > There's a few places where importing
> jdk.internal.misc.VM might be nicer to avoid repeating the fully
> qualified name - java.lang.Class and java.lang.System are two examples.

I see these. Integer and few others too. I fixed them and updated
the webrev in-place.

> In passing then I wonder if it's time to drop OSEnvironment, I don't
> think it has been needed for a long time (the win32 error mode stuff is
> legacy).

Right. If it is ok, I'll file another bug and do the cleanup as a
follow up.

-Chris.



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