Integrated: 8350753: Deprecate UseCompressedClassPointers

Sat Apr 12 06:01:38 UTC 2025

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 06:09:16 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Deprecates UseCompressedClassPointers. For the lengthy description of why and how we do this, please read the lengthy [CSR](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8350754).
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> Testing:
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> I ran all jtreg tests manually on Linux-x64 that used the flag in some form (55 tests) to ensure they don't trip over the added deprecation output.
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> I also tested the JVM on arm32 to verify that UseCompressedClassPointers had never been available there, and that we don't start printing a confusing deprecation message now.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 034c0d4d
Author:    Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/034c0d4de5739bd20d734471b2d9065a0ca387bd
Stats:     13 lines in 3 files changed: 12 ins; 0 del; 1 mod

8350753: Deprecate UseCompressedClassPointers

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24436