Review Request (S) 8005590: java_lang_Class injected field resolved_constructor appears unused

[Stefan Karlsson]

Thanks for the reviews, Coleen and Dave.

StefanK

On 01/15/2013 04:03 PM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8005590/webrev.00/
>
> This change removes the unused resolved_constructor field, which 
> HotSpot injects into java.lang.Class. This saves one word per 
> java.lang.Class instance.
>
> This field was used by the old reflection code, which was removed as a 
> part of this bug:
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7082263
>
> Testing: vm.quick.testlist and footprint_real3-jetty.
>
> thanks,
> StefanK
>