On Mar 18, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Rob McKenna <rob.mcke...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Might be worth following up with > the mlvm-dev list to see what they think. Looks good to me though! > > Have the corresponding VM changes also been pushed to 7? There are no corresponding VM changes. The Object.clone hack is in the VM for a very long time already. > > -Rob > > On 04/03/14 00:13, Christian Thalinger wrote: >> On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Rob McKenna <rob.mcke...@oracle.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Christian, >>> >>> If you want to get this into 7u60 you'll need to add the >>> 7u60-critical-request keyword to the main bug. >> Sure, but first I wanted to get an impression if people want this backported >> at all. >> >>> (here's the background mail: >>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2014-January/008315.html ) >>> >>> This is approved for 7u80. >> Thanks, Rob. Let me update the backport bug to 7u80 for now. >> >>> -Rob >>> >>> On 03/03/14 20:12, Christian Thalinger wrote: >>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8001105 >>>> >>>> I would like to backport this fix to 7u (preferably 7u60). The bug was >>>> filed to affect versions 7 and 8 was pushed to 8 only. Here is the >>>> changeset: >>>> >>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/97d5cc1e7586 >>>> >>>> and the original review thread with a pointer to the original report: >>>> >>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2013-September/011769.html >>>> >>>> I’ve created a backport for 7u60 for now to keep track: >>>> >>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8036531 >>>> >>>> Let me know what you think. >
