HI Stuart,,

I added myself as a reviewer and the webrev looks fine.

Best
Lance
> On Jun 4, 2019, at 10:46 PM, Stuart Marks <stuart.ma...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Please review this changeset and CSR request that remove the 
> traceInstructions() and traceMethodCalls() methods from java.lang.Runtime. 
> These methods have been deprecated for removal since Java 9, and they do 
> nothing. I've also removed a couple mentions of these methods from some tests.
> 
> After this changeset, the only times these methods are mentioned is in 
> javac's symbol tables (for example, make/data/symbols/java.base-9.sym.txt) 
> where they are kept because they are present in earlier releases.
> 
> They are also mentioned in the file
> 
>    test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/appcds/ExtraSymbols.symbols.txt
> 
> However, this file has a comment
> 
>> 68 -1: # The values in this file are only used for testing the operation of
>> 63 -1: # adding extra symbols into the CDS archive. None of the values
>> 70 -1: # are interpreted in any way. So even if they contain names of classes
>> 70 -1: # that have been renamed or removed, or string literals that have been
>> 66 -1: # changed or remove from Java source code, it would not affect the
>> 26 -1: # correctness of the test.
> 
> so it seems that leaving mention of these methods in this file is harmless. 
> Based on this comment I've decided not to change this file. Nonetheless, I'm 
> including hotspot-dev in this review to make sure this is ok. (I seem to 
> recall a similar issue came up the last time I removed something.)
> 
> Bug:
> 
>       https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8205131
> 
> Webrev:
> 
>       http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8205131/webrev.0/
> 
> CSR request:
> 
>       https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8225330
>       (if you review, please edit this issue and add yourself to the
>       Reviewed By field)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> s'marks
> 

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