RFR: JDK-8141049: Remove CARD_REPEAT_HISTO from the G1 code

[Bengt Rutisson]

Thanks, Kim!

Bengt

On 2015-10-30 20:11, Kim Barrett wrote:
> Looks good.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: bengt.rutisson at oracle.com
> To: hotspot-gc-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 8:15:16 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: RFR: JDK-8141049: Remove CARD_REPEAT_HISTO from the G1 code
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Yet another define that guards dead debugging code.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8141049/webrev.00/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141049
>
> The CARD_REPEAT_HISTO define is used in the code to log more detailed
> information about the marking cycle. Since this is a define that
> requires re-compilation to have any effect the code is not used by
> normal builds.
>
> Thus, this is to be considered debug code. As such it should be removed
> from the normal code base and included back if it is needed for a debug
> session.
>
> Thanks,
> Bengt