On 03/13/2013 09:14 PM, Alex Kasko wrote: > On 03/13/2013 09:02 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> >> OpenJDK 6 is a legacy project. People only use it because they want >> long-term stability and compatibility. Therefore, only changes that >> fix significant bugs should be made. This is not a policy change from >> that discussed on http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk6/ > > Question about two features, that are not bugfixes, but may be useful in > jdk6: > > 1) unlimited crypto support: > - makefile patch from jdk7 [1] > - maillist thread [2] > > 2) missed copyMemory method in sun.misc.Unsafe: > - maillist thread [3] > - patch that I'm using in my local jdk6 builds [4] > - original patch that removed proper copyMemory method [5] > > Are there any chances for them to be included into jdk6?
I would strongly prefer it if neither of these patches went in, but I am open to argument. Almost nothing would persuade me to accept 2). This is an internal method that no application should use. Andrew.
