Not that I actually have a vote, but if Alan feels it is not worth
making, I would go back to arguing for something like a
VirtualMachineError to be thrown, because the behavior is out of spec.
The current behavior - a sort-of-but-not-really OOME - is a little
odd.
Jeremy
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at
The resolution of this is still uncertain.
We have one approval I think,
but all of the maintainers have expressed reluctance at making this change.
I continue to agree with Jeremy and be in favor of making this change,
but it's no big deal either way.
Perhaps Alan's opinion is authoritative, since
Changeset: 1299804aa6e7
Author:xuelei
Date: 2009-06-16 20:46 +0800
URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/jdk/rev/1299804aa6e7
6850783: InvalidityDateExtension returns reference to internal mutable state
Summary: return cloned instead of referenced object
Reviewed-by: weijun
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Changeset: a9c04a57a39f
Author:mcimadamore
Date: 2009-06-16 10:45 +0100
URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/langtools/rev/a9c04a57a39f
6845686: basic and raw formatters do not display captured var id properly when
javac runs in -XDoldDiags mode
Summary: Basic and raw formatters