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

[Chris Hegarty]

Thanks Mike,

It was actually Alan that caught this. Crazy that someone ( at some time 
) even thought this was a good idea!

-Chris.

On 24/10/2011 15:41, Mike Duigou wrote:
> Looks good. Nice catch.
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> Mike
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> On Oct 24 2011, at 07:20 , Chris Hegarty wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/7104209/webrev.00/webrev/
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>> -Chris.
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