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

Kim Barrett kim.barrett at oracle.com
Wed Mar 13 23:03:14 UTC 2019


> On Mar 13, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Per Liden <per.liden at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/13/2019 09:29 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>> On Mar 13, 2019, at 4:07 PM, Kim Barrett <kim.barrett at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Clear and unambiguous, nice!
> 
> Reviewed.
> 
> /Per

Thanks.



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