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

[Christian Thalinger]

On May 17, 2013, at 2:28 PM, David Chase <david.r.chase at oracle.com> wrote:

> There was a spacing change that did not get reverted.
> This time, for sure.
> Note that this sets a property that won't get reset without a companion change in the JDK.
> (And the companion change is getting a bit of a pushback, though I hope to find, once I digest
> all the benchmarks I ran this afternoon, that it's not as scary as feared.)
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~drchase/8014362/webrev.04

"true" :) "false"

What's the smiley doing there?  Is this all a joke?  True or false?

-- Chris

P.S.:  The change looks good.  Happy weekend!

> 
> On 2013-05-17, at 4:30 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Somehow globals.hpp showed up in the webrev. Otherwise changes are good.
>> 
>> Vladimir
>> 
>> On 5/17/13 1:28 PM, David Chase wrote:
>>> New webrev:
>>> 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~drchase/8014362/webrev.03/
>>> 
>>> It compiles (and runs) on both x86 and Sparc.
>>> 
>>> David
>>> 
>>> On 2013-05-16, at 11:32 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Okay, I agree with X86_ONLY().
>>>> 
>>>> Vladimir
>>> 
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