On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 03:06:17 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Quick question about the violation of the "This is equivalent to" spec: Does > our new implementation lead to any observable side effects that make the > returned results or thrown exceptions different from that of `format(obj, new > StringBuffer(), new FieldPosition(0)).toString()`? > > In the ClassFile API, there are similar "behave as if" notes such as > > https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/3f37c5718d676b7001e6a084aed3ba645745a144/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/classfile/ClassFile.java#L433-L438 > > , yet we don't restrict implementations as the API surface, including the > return an exception result and side effects are the same. AFAIK, there will be no behavioral difference, but I think CSR has to be accompanied with this issue to remove that wording, because it is not correct anymore. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19513#issuecomment-2214627225
