RFR (L): 8022853: add ability to Unsafe to load and store uncompressed object and Klass references in a compressed environment

Christian Thalinger christian.thalinger at oracle.com
Mon Aug 19 14:28:54 PDT 2013


http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/8022853/webrev/
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8022853: add ability to Unsafe to load and store uncompressed object and Klass references in a compressed environment
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In some native data structures of the VM oops are stored uncompressed when compressed oops are turned on, for example Klass::_java_mirror. Java code which is tightly coupled with the VM should have the ability to read and write such fields.



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