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

[Christian Thalinger]

SAP is still using this, I suppose, but they will maintain their own version.  I applaud old code removal. Looks good.

On Sep 30, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Mikael Vidstedt <mikael.vidstedt at oracle.com> wrote:

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> Folks,
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> 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/
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> Summary:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> Mikael
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