New project: getting rid of IcedTea local patches

[Alan Bateman]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> :
>> icedtea-bytebuffer-compact.patch - this looks to be a partial fix to
>> 6593946. If so, 6593946 is already in jdk6/jdk6/jdk
>> (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/3e7bfcdcf96f).
>>
>>     
>
> IcedTea6 is still based on the last build drop of jdk6, not the
> Mercurial repository.  So this 6 week old patch won't be in the 25th
> of November b14 tarball.
> Interestingly, it also still exists in IcedTea7 as there were cases
> covered by the patch which didn't make it into the commit.
> I've attached that version.  It was originally added by Keith Seitz
> while he was working on OpenJDK at Red Hat (according to the
> ChangeLog).
>   
Once the fix gets into a build (b16?) then I don't think you'll need the 
IcedTea6 patch. Also, it does seem that the IcedTea6 patch is only a 
partial fix in that I don't see the changes for the view buffers. I 
looked at the patch you attached in the last mail (is this the IcedTea 
patch to jdk7?). It seems to be a no-op, or at least just replaces 
setting of mark to -1 with calls to discardMark that does the same 
thing. Nothing wrong with it, just inconsistent with the existing code.

-Alan.