Put an extra byte in every object header

[Krystal Mok]

This is the thread Chris was talking about:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2012-June/005994.html

HTH,
Kris

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Christian Thalinger
<christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 9, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Xin Tong <xerox.time.tech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> what is a way to put an extra byte into every object header in
>> hotspot. I tried putting it into class markOop and class Oop. none
>> worked. the runtime crashed when running java programs.
>> Is there anything i need to change ?
>
> There was a discussing about this very recently.  I just can't find the post right now.  You might use a search engine yourself.
>
> -- Chris
>
>>
>> Xin
>