15 May
2020
15 May
'20
2:24 p.m.
On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 14:29 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
On 5/15/20 9:45 AM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
So, Andrew Haley, what's the verdict on this one? There is a risk, yes. Not fixing the bug seems riskier, though. Thoughts?
Thanks for the detailed explanation.
I think we have to keep sun.misc.Version working correctly but sacrifice binary consistency in JVM_GetVersionInfo. As long as stuff such as AOT compilation and class data sharing keep working I think we're OK. It's not great, but it's an almost-inevitable consequence of using a one-byte field for the minor version and bumping releases by 10.
Agreed. Thanks for the review. I've requested 8u approval for this bug. Cheers, Severin