RFC: Merge java.net.URL

[Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>]

Hi all,

I'm planning on removing GCJ'S customized java.net.URL after the
branch gets merged (with something like the attached patch) but
there's one bit I want to check.  GCJ's URL.getURLStreamHandler()
has special cases for "file://" and "core://" URLs with this note:

  This is an interesting case.  It's tempting to think that we
  could call Class.forName ("gnu.java.net.protocol.file.Handler")
  to get the appropriate class.  Unfortunately, if we do that
  the program will never terminate, because getURLStreamHandler
  is eventually called by Class.forName.

The special cases are six years old, and GCJ seems to run fine
without them, passing make check, etc, but I wanted to see if
anyone knows of special weird cases in which this could break.

Cheers,
Gary

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