RFC: drop bytebuffer-compact patch from icedtea6

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

The bytebuffer-compact patch in icedtea6 was meant to address PR60. This 
bug was fixed independently in openjdk6  as 6593946: (bf) 
X-Buffer.compact() does not discard mark as specified. Since the fix was 
applied upstream, the icedtea patch was modified so it did not conflict 
with upstream.

The openjdk6 fix introduces a new method discardMark() in 
java.nio.Buffer, which is simply "mark = -1". The icedtea6 patch (as it 
stands currently) introduces a new method clearMark() (in addition to 
the discardMark() which is used elsewhere in the jdk) which does the 
exact same thing, and then replaces all uses of "mark = -1" in 
java.nio.Buffer class with clearMark(). IMHO, this patch is useless and 
should be dropped.

The IcedTea7 version of the patch can also be dropped, but at least that 
just replaces "mark = -1" with discardMark() and does not introduce any 
new methods.

Any thoughts or concerns?

ChangeLog
2011-04-21  Omair Majid  <omajid at redhat.com>

   * Makefile.am (ICEDTEA_PATCHES): Drop bytebuffer-compact.patch
   * patches/bytebuffer-compact.patch: Remove useless patch.

Cheers,
Omair
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