RFR (L): 8134994: use separate VMStructs databases for SA and JVMCI

Kim Barrett kim.barrett at oracle.com
Tue Dec 15 04:58:36 UTC 2015


On Dec 14, 2015, at 10:00 PM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>>> What about:
>>> 
>>> case BarrierSet::ModRef:
>>> 
>>> ?
>> 
>> That case never arises with the known set of barriers.  Let’s not pretend we know what code
>> should go there.  Better to break in an obvious way if the situation changes, when we’ll know
>> what needs to be done, rather than unintentionally covering a case incorrectly.
>> 
>> But on further consideration, I’m inclined to leave this as is in webrev.02, for consistency with
>> all of the other similar switch statements in other code processors.  They can be cleaned up
>> together as a separate RFE.
> 
> Sounds good.

Filed https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8145362



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