RFC: Merge java.net.URL

[Andrew Haley]

Gary Benson writes:
 > 
 > 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 handler for "core" has nothing to do with that note; it's a
separate case.

 > 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.

Well, are you suggesting we remove the "core" protocaol altogether?

Andrew.