RFR(S): 8068739: G1CollectorPolicy uses uninitialized field '_sigma' in the constructor

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi Volker,

On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 10:53 +0100, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi Mikael, Thomas,
> 
> thanks a lot for the reviews.
> 
> @Thomas: ..and thanks for sponsoring. I think we should also consider
> this one for downporting to jdk8u.

The change is currently in the push queue for jdk9.

We only just recently branched 8u40 (well, not exactly recently, but
holidays...) from the 8u-dev branch and are starting to look at
backports.

This change seems to be a no-brainer for inclusion to me.

Thanks,
  Thomas