narrow_klass_shift is nonzero on jdk9...

Coleen Phillimore coleen.phillimore at oracle.com
Fri Jan 23 18:24:11 UTC 2015


On 1/23/15, 1:01 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 01/23/2015 05:52 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
>> If I understand correctly, HeapBaseMinAddress is meant as a lower
>> bound to protect the space needed for the system, not as the address where
>> the heap should be placed.
> Ah, right.  Okay, now I get it!

Yes, and this further limits things because for most platforms it's 
2*G.  That's why we wanted to get the compressed class space out of the way.

Coleen

>
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
>



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