Request for review: 7132690 InstanceKlass:_reference_type should be u1 type
Jiangli Zhou
jiangli.zhou at oracle.com
Tue Jan 24 14:54:38 PST 2012
Hi Vitaly,
An assert in the setter probably is a good idea. I should have added it
when making the change. Thanks for the comments!
Thanks,
Jiangli
On 01/24/2012 02:13 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
>
> Hi Jiangli,
>
> This is probably overly paranoid so feel free to ignore, but should
> the setter in InstanceKlass assert that the passed in ReferenceType
> fits into a u1 instead of silently narrowing it? Or change the setter
> to take a u1 and make caller do the cast? This would prevent someone
> defining another member of the enum with an explicit value that
> doesn't fit into u1. Like I said, paranoia ... :)
>
> Thanks
>
> Sent from my phone
>
> On Jan 24, 2012 3:06 PM, "Jiangli Zhou" <jiangli.zhou at oracle.com
> <mailto:jiangli.zhou at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Please review the change for 7132690:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jiangli/7132690/webrev.00/
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ejiangli/7132690/webrev.00/>
>
> It changes InstanceKlass::_reference_type from ReferenceType to
> u1. The ReferenceType is defined as an enum with 6 values
> (src/share/vm/utilities/globalDefinitions.hpp). The change saves
> 4-byte for each class.
>
> Tested with runThese and ute vm.quick.testlist. Ran jprt.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jiangli
>
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