Revision: 22865
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     Tue Aug  5 12:04:58 2014 UTC
Log: Precise sweeping makes zapping of garbage memory in UpdatePointer obsolete.

BUG=
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Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/440073002
http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=22865

Modified:
 /branches/bleeding_edge/src/heap/mark-compact.cc

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--- /branches/bleeding_edge/src/heap/mark-compact.cc Tue Aug 5 11:58:24 2014 UTC +++ /branches/bleeding_edge/src/heap/mark-compact.cc Tue Aug 5 12:04:58 2014 UTC
@@ -3055,16 +3055,6 @@
         reinterpret_cast<base::AtomicWord*>(address),
         reinterpret_cast<base::AtomicWord>(object),
reinterpret_cast<base::AtomicWord>(HeapObject::FromAddress(new_addr)));
-  } else {
- // We have to zap this pointer, because the store buffer may overflow later,
-    // and then we have to scan the entire heap and we don't want to find
-    // spurious newspace pointers in the old space.
- // TODO(mstarzinger): This was changed to a sentinel value to track down
-    // rare crashes, change it back to Smi::FromInt(0) later.
-    base::NoBarrier_CompareAndSwap(
-        reinterpret_cast<base::AtomicWord*>(address),
-        reinterpret_cast<base::AtomicWord>(object),
-        reinterpret_cast<base::AtomicWord>(Smi::FromInt(0x0f100d00 >> 1)));
   }
 }

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