Re: JDK 9 proposal: remove sun.misc.Ref

2014-01-08 Thread Mandy Chung
On 1/8/2014 1:06 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: On 07/01/2014 22:26, Joe Darcy wrote: So the type has been deprecated for at least 10 years. Rather than fixing the warning in the class, I think the best course of action is to remove the file in JDK 9. A build of OpenJDK without this file builds fi

Re: JDK 9 proposal: remove sun.misc.Ref

2014-01-08 Thread Alan Bateman
On 07/01/2014 22:26, Joe Darcy wrote: So the type has been deprecated for at least 10 years. Rather than fixing the warning in the class, I think the best course of action is to remove the file in JDK 9. A build of OpenJDK without this file builds fine; if a build of the closed sources goes f

Re: JDK 9 proposal: remove sun.misc.Ref

2014-01-08 Thread Remi Forax
On 01/08/2014 03:26 AM, Stuart Marks wrote: On 1/7/14 2:26 PM, Joe Darcy wrote: public abstract class Ref { So the type has been deprecated for at least 10 years. Rather than fixing the warning in the class, I think the best course of action is to remove the file in JDK 9. A build of OpenJDK

Re: JDK 9 proposal: remove sun.misc.Ref

2014-01-07 Thread Stuart Marks
On 1/7/14 2:26 PM, Joe Darcy wrote: public abstract class Ref { So the type has been deprecated for at least 10 years. Rather than fixing the warning in the class, I think the best course of action is to remove the file in JDK 9. A build of OpenJDK without this file builds fine; if a build of t

JDK 9 proposal: remove sun.misc.Ref

2014-01-07 Thread Joe Darcy
Hello, As part of the lint clean up of core libraries, I noticed a number of warnings in the class sun.misc.Ref. Notable excerpts from the file: /* * Copyright (c) 1995, 2004, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. ... * @deprecated This class has been replaced by * java.uti