On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 06:17:34 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Now that Thread.stop has been degraded to throw > `UnsupportedOperationException` (JDK-8299610) the only direct source of async > exceptions is from JVMTI `StopThread`. We can remove the `JVM_StopThread` > code, remove the `stillborn` field from `java.lang.Thread` and its associated > accesses from the VM, and we can stop special-casing `ThreadDeath` handling > (as was done for the JDK code as part of JDK-8299610). > > Note that JVMTI `StopThread` can only act on a thread that is alive, so it is > no longer possible to stop a thread before it has been started. > > Also note that there is a change in behaviour for JNI `ExceptionDescribe` as > it no longer ignores `ThreadDeath` exceptions (not that it was ever specified > to ignore them, it simply mirrored the behaviour of the default > `UncaughtExceptionHandler` in `java.lang.ThreadGroup` - which also no longer > ignores them so the mirroring behaviour remains the same). > > Testing: tiers 1-3 This PR is now back to its proper form after merging the upstream changes. I can't say I like the "dependent PR" feature. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10400
