RFR (S) 8080298: Clean up os::...::supports_variable_stack_size()

[David Holmes]

Thanks Coleen!

David

On 4/08/2015 3:23 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
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> Looks good!
> Coleen
>
> On 8/3/15 1:51 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8080298
>>
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8080298/webrev/
>>
>> To support the old LinuxThreads implementation we had to distinguish
>> between threading libraries with fixed-stack-size threads
>> (LinuxThreads), and variable-stack-sized-threads (NPTL). As
>> LinuxThreads support was removed years ago and all the code related to
>> it has now been removed, we have a situation where
>> supports_variable_stack_size() is always true and so the function and
>> its use can be removed.
>>
>> While this notion was only ever relevant to Linux it also got copied
>> across to the BSD and AIX ports.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
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