RFR (tedious) 8173070: Remove ValueObj class for allocation subclassing for runtime code

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:30 PM, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Coleen,
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:26 PM, <coleen.phillimore at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> This change removes VALUE_OBJ_CLASS_SPEC as subclass for classes in the
>> runtime code.  I decided to split this into 3 parts to divide the
>> clicking.  See the bug for discussion of why we would like to remove this
>> null class on most platforms in favor of the link time check to disallow
>> Hotspot code from calling global operators new and delete (bug
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198243)
>>
>> Tested with mach5 nightly tests with the full set of changes and mach5
>> tier1-2 with this set.
>>
>> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8173070.01/webrev
>> bug link https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173070
>>
>> I'll update the copyrights with hg commit.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Coleen
>>
>
> Looks mostly okay. Thank you for doing this, this will make C++ parsing in
> CDT easier.
>
> allocation.hpp: the comment around _ValueObj now reads strange. Also, just
> curious, do we still need _ValueObj?
>
>
Oh, just read that others already commented on the comment. So, never
mind...


> Kind Regards, Thomas
>
>