RFR (S): JDK-6991197 G1: specialize deal_with_reference() for narrowOop*

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi all,

On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 10:29 +0100, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> The new webrev looks much better. I like that solution.
> 
> Can we do something similar with set_partial_array_mask()? It would be 
> good if that one could not be called with a narrowOop. Maybe this works?
> 

New webrev at
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/6991197/webrev.2/

The "fix" is to simply to only implement set_partial_array_mask() for
regular oops. The compiler will automatically complain if somebody tries
to use it with narrowOops then.

Thanks a lot,
  Thomas