b17

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On Sep 30, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:

> 2009/9/30 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>> Now that HotSpot 14 is merged, are we going to have a b17 release?
>>>
>>
>> Real soon now :-)
>>
>>> I thought this is what we were waiting on, but it seems more
>>> changesets are being added
>>> (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/langtools/rev/f754eab3d93a)
>>> without any public discussion on the mailing list.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> There is another javac fix to go back in b17 and a recently added  
>> test needs
>> to be moved.
>>
>
> Ok, are these backports from OpenJDK7? I haven't seen anything on the
> list other than the commits.

Andrew,

The javac fix coming up is (just) for OpenJDK 6. It protects against  
some multi-threading issues that can arise with multiple copies of  
javac running in the same VM using JSR 199.  The "fix"  is a small  
workaround; JDK 7 does not have the same problem any more because we  
rewrote this part of javac a while back -- and that rewrite is one of  
the items Joe was referring to when talking about backporting some  
javac work from 7 into 6-open.

-- Jon