Hi Mandy,
On 8/09/2016 5:42 AM, Mandy Chung wrote:
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8165563/webrev.00/
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.
Despite code to contrary, I don't think the system classloader has
"ever" been allowed to be null. If it can't be constructed then the
whole initialization process will fail with an exception.
But the changes taking advantage of that look good! :)
Thanks,
David
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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
