Please review (S) 6760773: UseCompressedOops is broken with UseParNewGC
Coleen Phillimore - Sun Microsystems
Coleen.Phillimore at Sun.COM
Wed Nov 5 14:04:46 PST 2008
The load was sign extending the compressed oop when running with very
large Java heap, so that the compare with super class list for casting
was failing. This causes ClassCastException with specjvm98.
UseParNewGC was coincidental - just caues the oop to have sign bit set
that we're looking for.
Webrev: http://webrev.invokedynamic.info/coleenp/6760773
(internal) bug id: http://monaco.sfbay.sun.com/detail.jsf?cr=6760773
Thanks,
Coleen
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