RFR(m): 8220351: Cross-modifying code

[Andrew Haley]

On 6/19/19 5:03 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> ebx clobbers are not supported on older GCC versions.
> src/hotspot/os_cpu/linux_x86/orderAccess_linux_x86.hpp currently says
> this:
> 
> // Compiler version last used for testing: gcc 4.8.2
> 
> But this is blatantly not true because GCC 4.8 cannot spill ebx in PIC
> mode.

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8226525

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