On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hega...@oracle.com>wrote:
> Martin, Alan, > > OK, I finally got back to this. > > I agree that Martins changes should be fine for jdk8, but removing all > these fields may cause an issue with jdk7. Removing pads, fine. The rnd and > initialized fields are still applicable in jdk7 ( or 7 will need changes to > remove their dependency ). > > For example, a serialized TLR from jdk8 with Martins changes, deserialized > with jdk7 would contain no field values, therefore the defaults would > apply. Calling setSeed on this object would not throw the expected UOE. > My expectation was that with my changes, the default serialization would apply, and the serialized form would contain initiatialized=1. rnd would not be in the serialized form, but would deserialize to 0, which is the same as currently done. Completely untested. BTW, we still don't have a good story on cross-JDK serialization testing. > > I think minimally TLR in jdk8 needs to keep initialized, and possibly > write some reasonable value for rnd. Whether rnd needs a reasonable value is a reasonable question.
