RFR: [8u] 8087342: crash in klassItable_initialize_itable_for_interface

[David Holmes]

Hi David,

We don't allow private interface methods in Java 8 at the language 
level. So I'm not clear what should be expected here. ??

Thanks,
David H.

On 27/01/2017 12:04 AM, David Buck wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Please review this backport of 8087342 to 8u-dev.
>
> bug report: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8087342
>
> JDK 9 push: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/5e09f372116b
>
> JDK 9 review thread (2 parts):
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2015-July/015436.html
>
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2015-August/015602.html
>
>
> JDK 8u webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dbuck/8087342_01/
>
> The backport was relatively straightforward. The only minor complication
> was the refactoring done as part of 8067480 [0]. 8067480 itself did not
> need to be backported from 9 to 8u because that issue did not apply to
> 8u by the time it was fixed in 9. But the refactoring done for 8067480
> seemed to be the only reasonable way to backport 8087342 and keep the
> code readable. (If I had just added yet another bool flag to each of
> these methods, it would have been *way* to easy to get parameters
> confused.)
>
> So the best way to look at this changeset is as a backport of both
> 8087342 and (most of) 8067480.
>
> [0]
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8067480
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/d656b4c91d51
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2015-January/013717.html
>
>
> Cheers,
> -Buck