RFR: 8013117: Thread-local trace_buffer has wrong type and name

[Nils Loodin]

Does it matter that the pointer gets initialized to NULL before, but not 
now? There isn't any null checks anywhere that depends on that?

Regards,
Nils

On 04/24/2013 09:51 AM, Rickard Bäckman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> can I have a couple of reviews for this small change. The short story is that the current way the thread-local _trace_buffer is somewhat inflexible.
> By changing the type of the getter this structure gets more flexible for different implementations. I also think that the name is misused. Just naming it
> to _trace_data is more generic and less implementation-specific.
>
> The webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rbackman/8013117/
>
> Thanks
> /R
>