[7u-dev] Request for approval: 8001105: findVirtual of Object[].clone produces internal error

[Christian Thalinger]

On Mar 18, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Rob McKenna <rob.mckenna at oracle.com> wrote:

> Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Might be worth following up with the mlvm-dev list to see what they think. Looks good to me though!
> 
> Have the corresponding VM changes also been pushed to 7?

There are no corresponding VM changes.  The Object.clone hack is in the VM for a very long time already.

> 
>     -Rob
> 
> On 04/03/14 00:13, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>> On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Rob McKenna <rob.mckenna at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Christian,
>>> 
>>> If you want to get this into 7u60 you'll need to add the 7u60-critical-request keyword to the main bug.
>> Sure, but first I wanted to get an impression if people want this backported at all.
>> 
>>> (here's the background mail: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2014-January/008315.html )
>>> 
>>> This is approved for 7u80.
>> Thanks, Rob.  Let me update the backport bug to 7u80 for now.
>> 
>>>    -Rob
>>> 
>>> On 03/03/14 20:12, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8001105
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to backport this fix to 7u (preferably 7u60).  The bug was filed to affect versions 7 and 8 was pushed to 8 only.  Here is the changeset:
>>>> 
>>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/97d5cc1e7586
>>>> 
>>>> and the original review thread with a pointer to the original report:
>>>> 
>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2013-September/011769.html
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve created a backport for 7u60 for now to keep track:
>>>> 
>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8036531
>>>> 
>>>> Let me know what you think.
>