On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 14:13:10 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> ### Description
>> The use of `ThreadDeath` is replaced with checking the exception be of type
>> `Error` and the thread is `TERMINATED`.
>>
>>
>> ### Test
>> local and mach5 tier1
>
> test/lib/jdk/test/lib/process/ProcessTools.java line 827:
>
>> 825:
>> 826: public void uncaughtException(Thread t, Throwable e) {
>> 827: if (e instanceof Error && t.getState() == State.TERMINATED)
>> {
>
> Dropping the check for ThreadDeath is fine but checking the thread state is
> puzzling. When a Thread completes with an uncaught exception/error then the
> UHE is called from the thread before it terminates so it's state won't be
> TERMINATED. Is there more going on here that the UHE is called with an
> already terminated Thread?
I assumed the `ThreadDeath` was there to catch `Thread.stop()` calls and just
ignore them. So, I wanted to keep this functionality.
Can we remove using `ThreadDeath` relying on that `Thread.stop()` is also
deprecated?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12827
