> On 7 Sep 2016, at 12:42, Mandy Chung <[email protected]> wrote: > > Webrev: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8165563/webrev.00/ >
+1 Do we have any tests that can be cleaned up? If so log a separate issue for that? Paul. > ClassLoader::getPlatformClassLoader [1] is added in JDK 9 that is parent or > ancestor of the system class loader [1]. The system class loader will never > be null. Another relevant change in JDK 9 was that the system initialization > was reworked that the built-in system class loader is initialized very early > during startup. > > This patch updates ClassLoader::getSystemClassLoader to return a non-null > system class loader and the implementation of a few methods to handle the > null system class loader case. > > Mandy > > [1] > http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html#builtinLoaders
