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[Denis Lila]

----- "Dr Andrew John Hughes" <ahughes at redhat.com> wrote:

> Ok to backport this one to 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9?  This initial version
> only covers hs19 but the same broken block of code is present right
> back to hs14, so we may as well patch it everywhere.
> 
> With 1.9, we'll do an immediate 1.9.3 release to allow people to
> start using hs19 and compressed oops.

I can't see anything wrong with a backport, although, obviously new
patches will have to be made for the appropriate hotspot versions used
in 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9 because the one we have for HEAD won't apply to
at least the hotspot used in 1.7.

Regards,
Denis.