src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/System.java

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1994, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1994, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this

@@ -1764,42 +1764,10 @@
     public static void runFinalization() {
         Runtime.getRuntime().runFinalization();
     }
 
     /**
-     * Enable or disable finalization on exit; doing so specifies that the
-     * finalizers of all objects that have finalizers that have not yet been
-     * automatically invoked are to be run before the Java runtime exits.
-     * By default, finalization on exit is disabled.
-     *
-     * <p>If there is a security manager,
-     * its <code>checkExit</code> method is first called
-     * with 0 as its argument to ensure the exit is allowed.
-     * This could result in a SecurityException.
-     *
-     * @deprecated  This method is inherently unsafe.  It may result in
-     *      finalizers being called on live objects while other threads are
-     *      concurrently manipulating those objects, resulting in erratic
-     *      behavior or deadlock.
-     *      This method is subject to removal in a future version of Java SE.
-     * @param value indicating enabling or disabling of finalization
-     * @throws  SecurityException
-     *        if a security manager exists and its <code>checkExit</code>
-     *        method doesn't allow the exit.
-     *
-     * @see     java.lang.Runtime#exit(int)
-     * @see     java.lang.Runtime#gc()
-     * @see     java.lang.SecurityManager#checkExit(int)
-     * @since   1.1
-     */
-    @Deprecated(since="1.2", forRemoval=true)
-    @SuppressWarnings("removal")
-    public static void runFinalizersOnExit(boolean value) {
-        Runtime.runFinalizersOnExit(value);
-    }
-
-    /**
      * Loads the native library specified by the filename argument.  The filename
      * argument must be an absolute path name.
      *
      * If the filename argument, when stripped of any platform-specific library
      * prefix, path, and file extension, indicates a library whose name is,