I would like to backport 8031064 to 8u60: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031064 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-comp/hotspot/rev/72904af52714 It has been baking in jdk9 for over a week, and the patch applied cleanly except for the copyright year. dl