Compressed oops failure with hs19 master

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 24 November 2010 22:11, Tom Rodriguez <tom.rodriguez at oracle.com> wrote:
> I can reproduce this with the latest hotspot.  I've filed 7002666 for it.  You may want to disable compressed oops in hs19.
>

Thanks Tom.  We've already disabled compressed oops in IcedTea6 (see
http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2010/11/24/icedtea6-176-183-and-192-released/).
 I've suggested it to Joe for OpenJDK6
(http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-November/002117.html)
but no response as yet.

> tom
>
> On Nov 24, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>
>> I reported this on jdk6-dev
>> (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-November/002095.html)
>> but thought it best to also report it here as there's been no
>> response.
>>
>> The hs19 stable branch crashes with Eclipse's CDT plugin:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647737
>>
>> and the same occurs with the current OpenJDK7 HotSpot tree.
>> (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot/hotspot)
>>
>> Disabling compressed oops by default (as was done for hs17 stable)
>> will work around the problem, and this is what we presently do in
>> IcedTea6.
>>
>> Is compressed oops ready for prime time in hs19 or is turning it off
>> the right path to go down?  Has anyone else seen this issue or know of
>> anything that might fix it?
>>
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