[aarch64-port-dev ] [8u] 8231366: Shenandoah: Shenandoah String Dedup thread is not properly initialized

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 9/23/19 6:43 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> It does make me wonder if there isn't some way that ConcurrentGCThread
> could catch this lack of initialisation, or do the initialisation
> itself, then defer to the run() implementation of a subclass.

This is what later issue in 9+ did (among other things):
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8140257

...so this bug is 8-specific.

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Thanks,
-Aleksey