code question

Thomas Schatzl thomas.schatzl at oracle.com
Mon Jun 8 14:56:37 UTC 2015


Hi Joe,

On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 10:43 -0400, Joseph Provino wrote:
> > The HeapRegionClosure has a way of sending an "abort" notification
> due
> > to error to the caller, which is that "cl->incomplete()" call.
> > However in many if not all cases it is not used because either the
> work
> > that needs to be done cannot fail, or any failure is really fatal
> > anyway.

  sure. Please consider Stefan's suggestion. It would be preferable to
remove all that unused stuff. I only did not suggest that because I was
too lazy to check all HeapRegionClosure implementations.

Thanks,
  Thomas





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