hang when using -XX:-UseCompilerSafepoints

[David Holmes]

On 13/11/2014 5:43 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> 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

You actually filed 8064776 first :)

But neither is needed as removal can be the solution of 8064749.

David

> I'll do a patch to remove the flag.
>
> -Aleksey.
>