RFR (S) 8080298: Clean up os::...::supports_variable_stack_size()

[David Holmes]

Thanks Volker!

David

On 3/08/2015 6:58 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> the change looks good.
> Thanks for fixing our platforms as well.
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 7:51 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com
> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8080298
>
>     webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8080298/webrev/
>
>     To support the old LinuxThreads implementation we had to distinguish
>     between threading libraries with fixed-stack-size threads
>     (LinuxThreads), and variable-stack-sized-threads (NPTL). As
>     LinuxThreads support was removed years ago and all the code related
>     to it has now been removed, we have a situation where
>     supports_variable_stack_size() is always true and so the function
>     and its use can be removed.
>
>     While this notion was only ever relevant to Linux it also got copied
>     across to the BSD and AIX ports.
>
>     Thanks,
>     David
>
>