Code Review 7104209: Cleanup and remove librmi (native library)

Mike Duigou mike.duigou at oracle.com
Mon Oct 24 14:41:19 UTC 2011


Looks good. Nice catch.

Mike

On Oct 24 2011, at 07:20 , Chris Hegarty wrote:

> It appears that the only function of librmi is to export the VM function JVM_LatestUserDefinedLoader. It seems really silly to have a whole native library to perform such a trivial operation. JVM_LatestUserDefinedLoader is also used in java.io.ObjectInputStream.
> 
> It would make more sense to put an entry point in sun.misc.VM, and have rmi, ois invoke it. This would completely eliminate the need for librmi.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/7104209/webrev.00/webrev/
> 
> -Chris.




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