RFR(L): JDK-8057777 Cleanup of old and unused VM interfaces

[Frederic Parain]

Thanks Coleen,

Fred

On 10/01/2014 12:01 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>
> Fred,
>
> I reviewed this change.  It looks great.  Some of the functions removed
> seem to be not only unused but dangerous.  Some of these I have made
> changes to that I didn't realize that the JVM didn't use these
> functions.  Thank you for doing this!
>
> Coleen
>
> On 9/30/14, 10:40 AM, Frederic Parain wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please review changes for bug JDK-8057777 "Cleanup of old
>> and unused VM interfaces"
>>
>> CR:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8057777
>>
>> This is basically a big cleanup of VM interfaces that are
>> not used anymore by the JDK but have been kept in our code
>> base for historical reasons (HotSpot Express for instance).
>> These changesets remove these interfaces from both the
>> JDK and the HotSpot side, and also perform some cleanup
>> on code that directly referenced the removed interfaces.
>>
>> These changes do not modify the behavior of the Java
>> classes impacted by the cleanup.
>>
>> VM interfaces removal has been approved by CCC and
>> a Release Note has been prepared that explicitly list
>> all the removed interfaces.
>>
>> Testing: JPRT hotspot + core, vm.quick.testlist, jdk_core
>>
>> Webrevs:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~fparain/8057777/
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Fred
>>
>

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