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

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon Oct 24 17:51:22 UTC 2011


On 24/10/2011 15:20, 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.
Looks good to me - thanks for taking this one.

-Alan.



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