On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 15:39, Severin Gehwolf <sgehw...@redhat.com> wrote:
snip... > > Two reasons: (1) JDK-8140482 isn't a small change. (2) The patch > doesn't apply cleanly[1] from JDK 9 so would be some work to get the > pre-requisite in. > > It appears the code is already out of sync and the risk would be higher > if we backported all of JDK-8140482 for a relatively small change of > JDK-8210836. > > The aim was to keep the backport as minimal as possible. > Not too bad. I've proposed it: https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2018-November/035349.html -- Andrew :) Senior Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Web Site: http://fuseyism.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/gnu_andrew_java PGP Key: ed25519/0xCFDA0F9B35964222 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = 5132 579D D154 0ED2 3E04 C5A0 CFDA 0F9B 3596 4222
