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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