The future of OpenJDK6

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 03/14/2013 04:42 PM, Alex Kasko wrote:
> >> > But if upstream won't do that, I'll accept a patch that
> >> > re- enables copyMemory.
> > The code part of the patch (without comments) is:
> > 
> > -     public native void copyMemory(long srcAddress, long
> > destAddress,
> > long bytes);
> > +     public native void copyMemory(Object srcBase, long srcOffset,
> > Object destBase, long destOffset, long bytes);
> > +     public void copyMemory(long srcAddress, long destAddress,
> > long
> > bytes) {
> > +         copyMemory(null, srcAddress, null, destAddress, bytes);
> > +     }
> > 
> > I can prepare webrev/OCA if necessary.
> 
> Please do, or maybe someone who is already an OpenJDK 6 committer can
> prepare one.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 
> 

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/jdk6/copymemory/webrev.01/

The patched version of OpenJDK6 can build Snappy.
-- 
Andrew :)

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