On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 17:23:59 GMT, Markus KARG <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sergey Tsypanov has updated the pull request incrementally with one
>> additional commit since the last revision:
>>
>> 8320971: Use same approach as BAOS
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/OutputStream.java line 212:
>
>> 210: * @return true if the argument of {@link #write(byte[])}} and
>> {@link #write(byte[], int, int)}} needn't be copied
>> 211: */
>> 212: boolean trusted() {
>
> This is a strange construction. Any subclass could simply implement this as
> `return true;`. Where is the guard against this, and why not doing it that
> way?
Technically speaking, `OutputStream` is an `abstract class`, so this
declaration of `boolean trusted()` is a package-protected method that will be
visible and overridable only within JDK itself.
However, I agree it looks suspicious.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16879#discussion_r1420846454
