Backport request: JDK-8031376 to JDK 8

[David Holmes]

On 21/10/2014 12:14 AM, Man, Jessica wrote:
> This is currently still being held and waiting for approval by the list moderator, could someone please let me know if any progress has been made on this and if there is further information I can provide to help please?

If still held then no one will have seen it. Something seems amiss with 
the mailing list as the archive only goes up to Oct 14.

I don't see any issue with getting this backported to 8u. If noone else 
volunteers I will pick it up.

David

> Thank you.
>
> From: Man, Jessica [Tech]
> Sent: 13 October 2014 09:44
> To: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Backport request: JDK-8031376 to JDK 8
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are affected by the issue reported in JDK-8031376, the fix has gone in JDK 9 hotspot, could we ask for it to be backported into current the JDK 8 dev stream please? The fix is important because we cannot use -verbose:class without the JVM crashing.
>
> This is the changeset:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/715bc50198c1
>
> We have verified that the fix does work in our scenario and hence can be applied cleanly into JDK 8.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Jessica Man, Technology
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