hang when using -XX:-UseCompilerSafepoints

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 13.11.2014 08:40, David Holmes wrote:
> There is some history in JDK-4974572 (which is non-public I'm afraid).
> To all intents and purposes the flag at that point was used to enable
> testing of workarounds if problems were suspected in the "new"
> safepointing code. I think it has outlived its usefulness by a few major
> releases so I'm happy to see it go.

Filed:
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8064777

I'll do a patch to remove the flag.

-Aleksey.