On Wed, 2018-11-21 at 06:47 +0000, Andrew Hughes wrote: > 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
Nice! The JDK 12 change from 8210836 applies as-is (post-path- shuffeling) with this dependency in place. Thanks, Severin
