On Jan 31 2014, at 15:09 , Jason Mehrens <jason_mehr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Martin, Mike, > > Totally agree with everything that has been said on this. Leaving it > 'unresolved' or 'closed as will not fix' won't bother me. > > Mike has it listed as a 'doc clarification only' so my suggestion toward a > resolution would be to modify AbstractList.subList documentation with a spec > implementation note. > > Might be worth adding to the bug report that AbstractList.removeRange doesn't > detect or specify that exceptions are thrown when 'to' is less than 'from' > but, ArrayList.removeRange overrides AbstactList.removeRange with an > implementation that detects and throws IOOBE. Might want to add an optional > IOOBE exception to AbstractList.removeRange documentation when this patch is > attempted. Added to the bug so that it doesn't get forgotten. Mike > Jason > >> Subject: Re: RFR [9] 8011645: CopyOnWriteArrayList.COWSubList.subList does >> not validate range properly >> From: mike.dui...@oracle.com >> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:06:16 -0800 >> CC: jason_mehr...@hotmail.com; core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net >> To: marti...@google.com >> >> >> On Jan 31 2014, at 11:50 , Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com> wrote: >> >>> Jason, >>> Thanks for pointing that out. I'm sure I have seen those bugs before (when >>> I owned them!) but had suppressed the memory. >> >> I'm currently the assignee for this bug. >> >>> I probably didn't try fixing them because there is no clean way out, and I >>> was afraid of getting bogged down in compatibility hell for what is a >>> non-issue for real-world users. >> >> Indeed. That's exactly why they still haven't been addressed. Suggestions >> are, of course, always welcome. >> >> Mike
