RFR: 8156759: [JVMCI] remove JVMCIError and UnsafeUtil classes

Christian Thalinger christian.thalinger at oracle.com
Thu May 12 17:35:47 UTC 2016


> On May 11, 2016, at 11:02 PM, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> After some internal discussion, I’m going to withdraw this RFE. Instead, I’ll generate a “JVMCI cleanup” RFE that among other changes:

You didn’t give me time to respond! ;-)

> 
> - preserves JVMCIError in jdk.vm.ci.common (but removes the context functionality)
> - moves InitTimer to jdk.vm.ci.common (getting rid of at least one single class project)

Sounds good.

> 
> -Doug
> 
>> On 12 May 2016, at 09:42, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 11 May 2016, at 22:54, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On May 11, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Please review this change which removes a couple of classes which do not need to be in JVMCI.
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve also taken the liberty of including a change that updates the mx Java compliance level for all JVMCI projects to 9 since JDK9 API (e.g., java.lang.reflect.Module) is now used in JVMCI. This means building with mx has been broken since that API usage was introduced. I can pull this out into a separate RFE if necessary but am hoping it can piggy back on this bug.
>> 
>> I’ve removed the above changes from the webrev.
>> 
>> -Doug
> 



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