RFR (S) 8031818: Experimental VM flag for enforcing safe object construction

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 02/07/2014 01:22 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> 
> On Feb 3, 2014, at 2:45 AM, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 01/31/2014 09:03 PM, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
>>> Can you also test with -XX:+FoldStableValues
>>> -XX:+UseImplicitStableValues since you changed relevant code and run HS
>>> regression tests (and CTW preferably).
>>
>> hotspot/test jtregs are passing fine with
>>  -XX:+FoldStableValues -XX:+UseImplicitStableValues
> 
> …because it’s unlikely these are executing a lot of 292 code (which is the only code right now that uses @Stable).  Running jdk/test/java/lang/invoke tests would be more meaningful or other stuff with Nashorn.

Fair enough.

jdk/test/java/lang/invoke do not fail with -XX:+FoldStableValues
-XX:+UseImplicitStableValues and this patch onboard as well on Linux
x86_64/fastdebug.

-Aleksey.