RFR (M): 8000740: remove LinkWellKnownClasses

[Christian Thalinger]

Thank you, Vladimir.  -- Chris

On Oct 10, 2012, at 7:09 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:

> Looks good.
> 
> Vladimir
> 
> On 10/10/12 5:10 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/8000740/
>> 
>> 8000740: remove LinkWellKnownClasses
>> Reviewed-by:
>> 
>> With 8000263 LinkWellKnownClasses was turned on by default to see if
>> it works. Nightly testing showed that various JDI and JVMTI tests fail
>> with LinkWellKnownClasses turned on, e.g.:
>> 
>> jdk/test/com/sun/jdi/NewInstanceTest.java
>> 
>> To avoid future problems we remove the code altogether.
>> 
>> Additionally I resurrected some 292 code that is required when
>> building with JDK 6.
>> 
>> src/share/vm/classfile/classFileParser.cpp
>> src/share/vm/classfile/classFileParser.hpp
>> src/share/vm/classfile/systemDictionary.cpp
>> src/share/vm/classfile/systemDictionary.hpp
>> src/share/vm/prims/methodHandles.cpp
>> src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp
>>