RFR: 8191333: Zero variant broken after 8189941

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 11/15/2017 05:48 PM, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
>> What about the handles?
> 
> Honestly, after looking at it, I have no idea.  It seems like something you should remove and see if that works.  The comment says that there should be no
> active handles.  Maybe have a NoHandleMark unconditionally? then SafepointMechanism::block_if_requested(THREAD) so that the comment is actually an assertion. 
> Sorry for too quick review.

I just tested that. This builds fine. Whether it's the way to go, I'm
not sure. Maybe Robbin can make a statement regarding this.

The freshly JVM is run during the build if I remember correctly, so I
assume it works with this particular change.

Adrian

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