On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 06:49:23 GMT, David Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
> So ... we're logically deprecating these functions by documenting that they > are deprecated, but there is no actual deprecation mechanism for JVM TI - > correct? JVM TI versioning cannot be used to remove anything, it can only add > new functionality. I don't think it will be possible to remove the functions but they would return an error such as JVMTI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED in the some future release. An intermediate step might be to emit a warning when the can_tag_objects capability is enabled. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4406
