On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 23:03:03 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please review this minor change to the specification of
> `java.io.PrintStream`. The longstanding behavior for flushing is to invoke
> the `flush()` method of the underlying `OutputStream` rather than its
> override but this was not made explicit in the specification.
> Yes, I noticed that as well. I didn?t think it was worth complicating things
> for the purpose of this issue to address it.
I guess what I was trying to ask is whether we should actually specify that
`print` and `append` call `flush` - as this seems to be a side effect of some
optimization.
Maybe we should say that the implementation ensures that flush is called when
writing a byte array or when a newline character or byte ({@code '\n'}) is
written - but might call it in additional unspecified circumstances?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2926
