RFR: 8188066: (ref) Examine the reachability of JNI WeakGlobalRef and interaction with phantom refs

Kim Barrett kim.barrett at oracle.com
Wed Mar 13 20:07:56 UTC 2019


Please review this change to the JNI specification.  The specified
behavior of Weak Global References, and in particular their
relationship to Java PhantomReference, is being updated to account
for a change to PhantomReference by JDK-8071507.

CR:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8188066

CSR:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8220617

Changes:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8188066/jni_specdiff_rev1.html
  specdiff for the changes.  In addition to updating the section
  describing Weak Global References, the description of NewGlobalRef
  is updated, as well as the copyright footer.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8188066/weak_global_refs_rev1.md
  Copies of the before and after text for the JNI Weak Global
  References section; easier to read than diffs or specdiff.




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