RFR (S): JDK-8141394: Remove the instrumentation added by JDK-6898948

Thomas Schatzl thomas.schatzl at oracle.com
Wed Nov 4 12:42:09 UTC 2015


Hi,

On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 09:26 +0100, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Could I have a couple of reviews for this small patch to remove some 
> debugging code?
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8141394/webrev.00/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141394
> 
> To help debug floating point issues for JDK-6902692, JDK-6898948 was 
> used to add some instrumentation.
> 
> The instrumentation is guarded by a flag, which is false by default. So, 
> unless the flag is enabled the instrumentation has no effect. We don't 
> run with this flag in our testing and thus the instrumentation code is 
> not being used.
> 
> The patch to add the instrumentation is very small. I've attached the 
> patch to JDK-6902692 and my proposed change removes the instrumentation 
> from the code base. That way we have the instrumentation available if we 
> ever start working on JDK-6902692 but we don't have to have the 
> debugging code in our code base.

  looks good.

Thomas





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