Thanks for the input, everyone. I take it this is ok to push, then?
On 01/25/13 06:22, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 24/01/2013 20:29, Eric McCorkle wrote: >> Also, can someone more experienced in core-libs please confirm that it >> has indeed not been used since that long ago (and perhaps more >> importantly, that there are no current plans to use it)? > The only usage that I can find is in the distance past, long before > OpenJDK. I'm not aware of anything or anyone planning to use it. > > When hotspot builds were going into several JDK trains then great care > was required, particularly with removing functions but I think that has > been rare. > > In any case, it is my understanding that the JVM_* functions are not a > supported interface, at least definitely not for applications/libraries > outside of the JDK to use directly. To my knowledge, we've never > documented these functions beyond the header files (except perhaps > perhaps porting documentation for those porting this code base). There > are moves afoot on cvmdi-dev [1] to document these functions but I'm not > tracking it closely to know what labels (private, unstable, etc.) are > planned. > > -Alan > > [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/cvmi-dev/
