code question

joe provino joseph.provino at oracle.com
Mon Jun 8 16:59:03 UTC 2015


On 06/08/2015 10:56 AM, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> 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
>
>
Okay.  I think I'll file a separate bug because that seems a lot more 
involved.

joe



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