Please, review backport to 8u20. The patch applies cleanly. This was pushed to jdk9 a bit more than 1 week ago. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~roland/8032633/webrev.01/ https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8032633 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-comp/hotspot/rev/45b0159f30f2 Roland.