On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:47:06 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 > > David Holmes has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a > merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 16 commits: > > - Merge branch 'master' into 8293592-JVM_StopThread > - Removal all special handling of ThreadDeath. > - Remove all references to the stillborn field > - Initial commit: remove JVM_StopThread > - Merge > - Updates to Java Thread Primitive Deprecation page > - Repalce "it" with "victim thread" > - Merge > - Revert test/langtools/ProblemList.txt as jshell tests no longer rely on > Thread.stop > - become -> became in javadoc > - ... and 6 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/3675f4c2...4eb07903 Marked as reviewed by coleenp (Reviewer). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10400
