RFR: 8057752: WhiteBox extension support for testing

[Stefan Johansson]

On 2014-09-10 16:09, Christian Tornqvist wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> This looks good.
Thanks Christian.
Stefan
> Thanks,
> Christian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hotspot-dev [mailto:hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of
> Stefan Johansson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 7:35 AM
> To: Mikael Gerdin; hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: RFR: 8057752: WhiteBox extension support for testing
>
> Thanks for reviewing this Mikael.
>
> Made a small addition to allow Windows to handle empty extensions:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/8057752/webrev.00-01/
>
> Stefan
>
> On 2014-09-10 11:11, Mikael Gerdin wrote:
>> Stefan,
>>
>> On Monday 08 September 2014 16.52.41 Stefan Johansson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please review these changes for RFE:
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8057752
>>>
>>> Webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/8057752/webrev.00/
>> Looks good.
>>
>>> Summary:
>>> Added the call to register_extended to make it possible extend the
>>> WhiteBox API. The Java API is still defined in WhiteBox.java, if the
>>> extension methods are not defined by an extension a linker error will
>>> occur.
>> Right, the code is designed so that it's possible to use mismatching
>> versions of WhiteBox.java as long as you avoid calling the unlinkable
> methods.
>> /Mikael
>>
>>> Stefan
>