On 20/08/2013 19:07, Mike Duigou wrote:
Hello all;
This is a proposal to deprecate (Any votes for outright removal?)
No objection to deprecating it but I assume anyone compiling against it
is seeing a warning already (because it's a JDK internal class).
We've historically being cautious about removing classes from sun.misc
(as we know there is code that ignores the warnings). So I would at
least do a quick check to see if there is anything obvious using it. One
other thing is that this isn't the only orphan in sun.misc. Some time
ago I created JDK-6852936 with a list of classes that aren't used. I
wasn't brave enough at the time to try to remove them.
-Alan
two classes in the private sun.misc package. These are ancient vestigial
classes who's usage has long been eliminated in the JDK in favour of
java.util.Arrays.sort(T[], Comparator) and java.util.Arrays.sort(T[], int
start, int end, Comparator).
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8023395/0/webrev/