RFC: backport S7104625 to icedtea7 forest

[Omair Majid]

On 12/08/2011 05:29 PM, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like someone to backport the fix for 7104625 into icedtea7 forest for
> me (I don't have commit rights). This bug in sun.awt.X11.XEvent is creating
> megabytes of char[], just for logging, even if logging is disabled. The fix is
> to add simple if statements whether logging is enabled or not.
>

Thanks for pointing me to this problem.

> Please see the original email for details:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2011-October/001954.html
>
> It has been backported this revision from jdk8 repo :
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/7636a62aba7e
>

I have pushed the fix into jdk7u-dev upstream [1]. The next openjdk7 
update release (7u4) should contain the fix. I am not sure when the 
plans for icedtea7 are, but we should get this fix when we next sync 
icedtea7 with jdk7u-dev.

If you need this fix earlier, I can add this to icedtea7 as well. Though 
I would rather avoid the extra work and just wait until the next sync :)

Cheers,
Omair

[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/9cc780355c09