JDK 9 RFR and sponsorship of JDK-8030656 Bad version check for parameter information in src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.cpp

[Joe Darcy]

On 12/18/2013 11:12 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> During the course of trying to increment the JDK_MINOR_VERSION from 8 to 9 in the JDK 9 forest, a HotSpot bug has discovered:
>>
>>         JDK-8030656 Bad version check for parameter information in src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.cpp
>>
>> Fortunately, the fix is very simple:
>>
>> --- a/src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.cpp    Fri Dec 13 09:35:12 2013 -0800
>> +++ b/src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.cpp    Wed Dec 18 10:30:02 2013 -0800
>> @@ -3286,7 +3286,7 @@
>>      sun_reflect_ConstantPool::compute_offsets();
>>      sun_reflect_UnsafeStaticFieldAccessorImpl::compute_offsets();
>>    }
>> -  if (JDK_Version::is_jdk18x_version())
>> +  if (JDK_Version::is_gte_jdk18x_version())
> Shouldn’t code like this be removed at all now that HSX is dead?
>
>

There are other checks of that flavor in the same file. For my purposes, 
I just want to get the feature working again when the JDK_MINOR_VERSION 
is updated.

-Joe