On Jan 28, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Volker Simonis <volker.simo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand that the benefits of calling System.runFinalizersOnExit() > may be questionable and I don’t have any objections to remove it in > Java 9. But I'm strongly against changing it to throw an > UnsupportedOperationException and downport that change to Java 8. In > my eyes that’s really a no-go. > > I've quickly scanned our SAP-internal Java repositories and found > several occurrences of System.runFinalizersOnExit() altough most of > them seem to be in testing/example code. It's perfectly fine if that > code won't run out of the box in Java 9. > > But it will be totally unacceptable if a product which has been > certified and runs on Java 8 will suddenly fail with an > UnsupportedOperationException just because of a new Java 8 update. > Yes, good point, i have a hair-trigger for rarely used unsafe stuff :-) Paul.
