[jdk11u] Backport the fix of JDK-8180450 to JDK 11?

[Andrew Haley]

On 10/12/24 15:02, Andrew Haley wrote:
>   > Is there a plan to backport the fix to JDK 11 in the future?
> 
> There is no strong technical reason why some version of the fix would not work on 11u, but it will require work. It's a complicated fix that touches many files, in effect rewriting interface type checking in C2, the server compiler.

On other thing: as this fix introduces new command-line flags, it might require a CSR (compatibility-specification ) review.

We could ship 11u without the flags, but that would mean that users couldn't turn the new behaviour off.

-- 
Andrew Haley  (he/him)
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
https://keybase.io/andrewhaley
EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671