This change has been pushed to jdk9/dev. The hotspot gatekeeper will bring it down into the hotspot forests.
-Chris. > On 7 Apr 2016, at 18:14, Chris Hegarty <chris.hega...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Enough technical debt has been paid down that we can now create the new > JDK-specific module as proposed by JEP 260 [1], named jdk.unsupported. > This module will initially contain, and export, the sun.misc package, > and will eventually export the sun.reflect package too ( once it has > been sanitized ). The jdk.unsupported module will be present in full JRE > and JDK images. > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8153737/ > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8153737 > > Summary of the changes: > > - Restructure, what remains of, the sources in sun/misc to reflect the > new modular layout. There are still a few non-Critical APIs in sun.misc > that will be addressed later. > > - Add dependencies from several JDK modules to jdk.unsupported. All > dependencies have issues tracking them, and should be removed in 9. > > - The test library in the top-level repo provides a convenience to > tests to retrieve Unsafe. This has been updated to the "real" internal > Unsafe, so there are many many tests that require to be updated, mostly > the @modules tags. ( The Unsafe dependency in the library should > probably be revisited at some point, as it requires many tests, not > wishing to use Unsafe, to require an explicit dependency on it ) > > Note: with recent work from Mikael [2], sun.misc.Unsafe is now just a > delegate for the "real" internal Unsafe, so it is time to move the > tests to use it directly. > > - Cleanup any tests unnecessarily/incorrectly declaring a dependency > on sun.misc ( this could have been unnecessarily added, been refactored > out at one point, or the library upon which the tests depends refactored, > that the dependency is no longer required ). I'm sure further cleanup > could be done, but this is sufficient for now. > > - A small number of test in hotspot/test/compiler/unsafe, which are > generated, have been updated, along with the generation script, to > depend on jdk.unsupported/sun.misc ( they explicitly test the sun.misc > version ) > > All 'core', 'pit', and 'hotspot' testsets have been successfully run on > Mac, Linux, Windows, and Solaris. > > -Chris. > > [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132928 > [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149159
