bug 6693236 fix
David Holmes
David.Holmes at oracle.com
Thu Jul 8 04:21:42 PDT 2010
Rémi Forax said the following on 07/08/10 21:03:
> Hotspot has already some flags that modify the behavoir of the VM
> in a way that is not fully compatible with the Java spec.
> I believe that RelaxAccessControlCheck is one of those.
>
> FailOverOldVerifier is a flag that already exists and
> being able to fail over the old verifier will ease the transition
> (and debugging) for all developers that generate bytecode at runtime
> until they modify their code to generate stack map frames.
My personal view is that they have had all of the Java 6 lifetime to
make such changes and that Java 7 is saying time is up. But disabling
the fail-over by default may not be unreasonable.
Others may want to comment here.
David
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