The s.m.Unsafe representation in hotspot and method registration

[Staffan Larsen]

We have abandoned the HSX model. From JDK 8 one version of Hotspot will be tied to one version of the JDK. This looks like old code that has not been cleaned up.

/Staffan

On 24 mar 2014, at 19:13, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 03/24/2014 07:02 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> On Mar 24, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Joel Borggrén-Franck <joel.franck at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Paul,
>>> 
>>> I would guess this is because of the HSX model where we could use the same VM with different majors of the JDK. Would that make sense?
>>> 
>> I was wondering about too, but does that still apply to JDKs 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.5 and 1.6?
>> 
>> Paul.
> This seems very shaky. Couldn't VM find out more reliably what major JDK it is running with?
> 
> Regards, Peter
>