RFR (L, tedious again, sorry) 8189610: Reconcile jvm.h and all jvm_md.h between java.base and hotspot

mandy chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Thu Oct 26 18:47:19 UTC 2017



On 10/26/17 2:57 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> A third option is to remove the support for link-time-opt entirely, if 
> it's not really used.
>
> * src/java.base/unix/native/include/jvm_md.h and 
> src/java.base/windows/native/include/jvm_md.h:
>
> These files define a public API, and contain non-trivial changes. I 
> suspect you should file a CSR request. (Even though I realize you're 
> only matching the header file with the reality.)

jvm.h and jvm_md.h are not public API and they are not copied to the 
$JAVA_HOME/includes directly.  This does raise the question that jvm*.h 
may belong to other location than src/java.base/{share,$OS}/native/include.

Mandy



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