Reviewer needed: backport of "7047325: Internal API to improve management of direct buffers" into IcedTea6 HEAD.

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 18:22 Tue 16 Aug     , Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> here's another backport which IMHO should be pushed into IcedTea6 HEAD. 

And obviously mine too, given I pointed this out to you last week.

> This
> backport is based on "7047325: Internal API to improve management of direct
> buffers" but I had to change it in some ways because the internal structure of
> OpenJDK8 and OpenJDK7 differs from IcedTea6.
> 

Can you elaborate on these changes?

> Here's ChangeLog entry:
> 
> 2011-08-16  Pavel Tisnovsky  <ptisnovs at redhat.com>
> 
>         * Makefile.am: added new patch
>         * NEWS: updated with backport
>         * patches/openjdk/7047325-Internal_API_to_improve_direct_buffers.patch:
>         Backport of 7047325: Internal API to improve management
>         of direct buffers
> 
> 
> Is it possible to push this backport please?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Pavel


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