RFR (S) : 8014362 : Need to expose some processor features via Unsafe interface

[Christian Thalinger]

On May 15, 2013, at 2:26 PM, David Chase <david.r.chase at oracle.com> wrote:

> We probably should, but I'd like to limit the scope of this work (the companion patch is 1500 lines long,
> includes obscure bit-fiddling, and assembly language).  I'm totally happy to file a bug against the established
> naming convention.

Sure, I'm fine with that.  I figured if you are already touching that code in the JDK we could do it now.

-- Chris

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> David
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> On 2013-05-15, at 4:31 PM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On May 15, 2013, at 7:34 AM, David Chase <david.r.chase at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Plan B, pass the information through a property "sun.zip.clmulSupported", to be removed on the JDK side.
>> 
>> Shouldn't we use some kind of HotSpot related namespace and remove all properties in that namespace?  That would make future additions easier.  Maybe:  com.oracle.jvm.hotspot.*
>> 
>> -- Chris
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