Reviewer needed: backport to IcedTea6 HEAD: "7041100: The load in String.equals intrinsic executed before null check"

[Pavel Tisnovsky]

Greetings,

Here's another backport I'd like to push to IcedTea6 HEAD:
"7041100: The load in String.equals intrinsic executed before null
check". Tested on RHEL 5.x.

ChangeLog entry:

2011-08-09  Pavel Tisnovsky  <ptisnovs at redhat.com>

        * Makefile.am: added new patch
        * NEWS: updated with backport
        *
patches/openjdk/7041100-load_in_String_equals_before_null_check.patch:
        Backport of 7041100.



Can anybody please review this fix?

Cheers,
Pavel

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