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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8316284

Remove sun.misc.Unsafe.{shouldBeInitialized,ensureClassInitialized}

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      A search of 175973022 classes in 484751 artifacts found 23 usages of Unsafe.shouldBeInitialized, of which 8 are unique, and 121 usages of Unsafe.ensureClassInitialized, of which 31 are unique. So not a lot of usage, and the few that we samples seem to be compiled to older releases.
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      A search of 175973022 classes in 484751 artifacts found 23 usages of Unsafe.shouldBeInitialized, of which 8 are unique, and 121 usages of Unsafe.ensureClassInitialized, of which 31 are unique. So not a lot of usage, and the few that we samples seem to be compiled to older releases.
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      Summary

      Remove sun.misc.Unsafe.shouldBeInitialized(Class) and sun.misc.Unsafe.ensureClassInitialized(Class). These methods have been deprecated, for removal, since JDK 15. The small number of libraries using these methods should migrate to using java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles.Lookup.ensureInitialized(Class) (added in Java 15).

      Problem

      sun.misc.Unsafe is an undocumented/unsupported critical internal API. We need to encourage libraries that use this API directly to move to using standard APIs where possible.

      Solution

      Remove sun.misc.Unsafe.shouldBeInitialized(Class) and sun.misc.Unsafe.ensureClassInitialized(Class).

      Add a release note.

      Specification

      Remove sun.misc.Unsafe.shouldBeInitialized(Class) and sun.misc.Unsafe.ensureClassInitialized(Class).

            alanb Alan Bateman
            alanb Alan Bateman
            Mandy Chung (Inactive), Roger Riggs
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