A method with return type size_t returns negative value

[Steve Poole]

On 26/04/11 10:40, Alan Bateman wrote:
> Steve Poole wrote:
>> On 26/04/11 09:43, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>
>>> . Another point is that jdk8 will be our opportunity to remove the 
>>> dependencies on the JVM_* functions
>>>
>>
>> That sounds interesting Alan - care to share more?
>>
> As you know, it's really hard to remove things from the JDK. Medals 
> are few. One thing that we've been trying to get rid of for many years 
> is legacy interruptible I/O support, a troublesome mis-feature that 
> dates back to jdk1.0. This is why older areas of the libraries 
> (java.io and java.net specifically) call into the VM via JVM_* 
> functions to do I/O. Back in jdk6 we added a VM option to allow the 
> mechanism be disabled. Early in jdk7 the default option was changed so 
> that it is now disabled by default. Once jdk8 opens then we should be 
> able to remove the mechanism and clean-up the library code so that it 
> no longer calls into the VM. My point to Jing LV was that this would 
> seem a more appropriate time to do the clean-up he is suggesting.
>
> -Alan.

Ok Alan - thanks for the background.  I must of missed the VM option 
along the way - what's it called?