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
Thu Aug 22 15:04:26 PDT 2013


After internal discussions and major pushback I am withdrawing this review.

-- Chris

On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:

> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/8022853/webrev/
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/8022853-jdk/webrev/
> 
> 8022853: add ability to Unsafe to load and store uncompressed object and Klass references in a compressed environment
> Reviewed-by:
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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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