Review request: 8003935: Simplify the needed includes for using Thread::current()

[David Holmes]

Hi Stefan,

I never did like these.

I have to wonder though, why isn't it "runtime/thread.hpp" that all the 
client code #includes? And then why isn't it thread.hpp that includes 
the platform specific header?

David

On 23/11/2012 9:54 PM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8003935/webrev
>
> Today, whenever we use Thread::current() we have to all these lines:
>
> #include "runtime/thread.hpp"
> #ifdef TARGET_OS_FAMILY_linux
> # include "thread_linux.inline.hpp"
> #endif
> #ifdef TARGET_OS_FAMILY_solaris
> # include "thread_solaris.inline.hpp"
> #endif
> #ifdef TARGET_OS_FAMILY_windows
> # include "thread_windows.inline.hpp"
> #endif
> #ifdef TARGET_OS_FAMILY_bsd
> # include "thread_bsd.inline.hpp"
> #endif
>
> This patch hides this dispatching in a new file named thread.inline.hpp.
> Now we only have to include thread.inline.hpp.
>
> Some background to these includes: This type of dispatching was
> introduced into the source files when we removed the includeDB files. We
> discussed whether we should use "dispatch files" or not for this kind
> platform dependent includes. The decision was to not create dispatch
> files for all types of platform at that time, but instead manually
> create them when we thought it was warranted.
>
> thanks,
> StefanK
>
>