RFR (S): 8024087: Remove dead JVM_{Get, Set}PrimitiveFieldValues functions

[Coleen Phillimore]

Looks good!
Coleen

On 09/30/2013 08:26 PM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
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> Folks,
>
> Please review:
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> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8024087
> Webrev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mikael/webrevs/8024087/webrev.00/webrev/
>
>
> Summary:
>
> This change removes two JVM_* functions - JVM_GetPrimitiveFieldValues 
> and JVM_SetPrimitiveFieldValues. These functions were used back in JDK 
> 1.3.1 to intrinsify two java.io.Object{Input,Output}Stream methods, 
> but the Java code was rewritten in the JDK 1.4 time frame and the 
> corresponding Java methods are no longer there, meaning this code is 
> well and truly dead and has been so for many years.
>
> On top of that the functions only have prototypes declared in 
> jvm_misc.hpp (as opposed to jvm.h etc), meaning the risk of somebody 
> depending on these functions is further limited. My non-extensive 
> (re-)search of the web appears to confirm this.
>
> Thanks,
> Mikael
>