Request for approval: 7121314 : Behavior mismatch between AbstractCollection.toArray(T[] ) and its spec (original) (raw)

Neil Richards neil.richards at ngmr.net
Tue Sep 4 09:40:50 PDT 2012

Now pushed to jdk7u-dev/jdk [1].

Regards, Neil

[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/09b0d78dfde9

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 13:04 +0100, Seán Coffey wrote:

Good point on it having to be a race condition. OK - sounds reasonable for backport then.

Sean - I've created a bug record for you. Will update when I see your push. regards, Sean. On 03/09/2012 12:16, David Holmes wrote: > On 3/09/2012 9:08 PM, Seán Coffey wrote: >>> Behavior mismatch between AbstractCollection.toArray(T[] ) and its spec >> Is such a correction in an update allowed now ? Even if it is a >> correction to original (released) behaviour ? This may be harmless but >> I'm checking to be sure. >> >> David, Mike, Sean - what are your thoughts here ? Does this need further >> discussion with conformance/compatibility engineers ? > > I don't have an issue with it. I can't imagine anyone relying on it > working the way it had been as the whole thing depends on a race > condition anyway. > > David > >> regards, >> Sean. >> >> On 03/09/2012 09:54, Sean Chou wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Here is a request for porting fix 7121314 back to JDK7, could you >>> please >>> help review? >>> >>> Bug is: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/viewbug.do?bugid=7121314 >>> >>> Changeset is: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/e06ea0dd9207 >>> >>> Thread where it was reviewed: >>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-March/009561.html >>> >>> >>> >>

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