On 11/09/2015 01:32 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
On 11/09/2015 11:43 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
On 02/11/15 10:45, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
On 11/02/2015 02:56 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
In line with the intended location for other VM annotations,
see 8138732 [1], @sun.misc.Contended should be moved
to the jdk.internal.vm.annotation package.
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8140687/00/
Changes look good to me.
But what's the compatibility story for JSR 166? With this move, we
would
be unable to bootclasspath JSR 166 JAR, since it references the "old"
sun.misc.Contended?
Correct.
As you are aware, the 166 CVS will fork shortly to support
a JDK 9 only version. Artifacts built from the fork are of
course not impacted by this change.
For existing 166 artifacts, they will not run on JDK 9 as
the Contended annotation will not be present.
Note that they might actually be able to run. They would just not be
@Contended. As I understand, VM just checks the presence of
annotations by string value - it doesn't try to materialize them in
the form of objects, so it does not fail.
The possible solution would be for VM to support both annotations as
aliases for some time.
Regards, Peter
-Chris.
Thanks,
-Aleksey
