It does change the behavior. The existing behavior is clearly a bug, since it reads a char that should be inaccessible. I don't believe AIOOBE exception is thrown, with or without my fix.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Mike Duigou <mike.dui...@oracle.com> wrote: > This change would seem to change the result when a high surrogate is the > last char in the String/StringBuilder/StringBuffer. > > Rather than throwing an ArrayIndexException it will return the high > surrogate char. > > I am going to defer to Sherman on this. I don't know that returning the > character is the right thing to do. > > Sherman? > > Mike > > On Mar 18 2013, at 14:28 , Martin Buchholz wrote: > > Hello Jim, Mike, > > I'd like you to do a code review: > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk8/surrogate-fiddle/ > > >