From 4aab58be4aa1bbe848084189b467d0c586a4ffbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Darcy <darcy@openjdk.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:06:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 8335637: Add explicit non-null return value expectations to
 Object.toString()

Reviewed-by: jpai
Backport-of: 66db71563c3ebd715a1192a9b399b618d7bdb8d0
---
 src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java
index b8bfdc3e3f9..d9813df57a4 100644
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java
@@ -237,6 +237,10 @@ public class Object {
 
     /**
      * {@return a string representation of the object}
+     *
+     * Satisfying this method's contract implies a non-{@code null}
+     * result must be returned.
+     *
      * @apiNote
      * In general, the
      * {@code toString} method returns a string that