review for 7082263: Reflection::resolve_field/field_get/field_set are broken

[David Holmes]

Hi Tom,

On 26/08/2011 1:35 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~never/7082263
> 1023 lines changed: 0 ins; 1017 del; 6 mod; 10236 unchg
>
> 7082263: Reflection::resolve_field/field_get/field_set are broken
> Reviewed-by:
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> The static field mirror changes missed some dead code in reflection.
> Instead of fixing it I'm deleting it.  I've deleted all the reflection
> code that's dead.  I confirmed that none of these JVM_ entry points
> are referenced by any JDK since 1.5.  They also aren't mentioned by
> the jvm.h in the JDK.  Tested with JPRT.

Seems the "old reflection" code is partly still the current reflection code! :)

But the deletion looks good. Only thing I'd suggest is to run the jdk 
reflection tests in addition to JPRT testing.

David