Review request (S) 8003553: NPG: metaspace objects should be zeroed in constructors

[Coleen Phillimore]

Adding hotspot-dev to get some more potential reviewers from maybe the 
GC team, hint...

Coleen

On 03/04/2013 03:02 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
> Summary: Zero metadata in constructors, not in allocation (and some in 
> constructors)
>
> This seems like a good first step in passing initial values into 
> constructors and no initializing metadata types by the callers 
> (although a lot more parameters will have to be passed for some).
>
> Tested with runThese jck, NSK vm.quick.testlist, lang and vm jck8, 
> java/lang/annotation jtreg tests and java/lang/invoke jtreg tests.
>
> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8003553/
> bug link at http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8003553
>
> Thanks,
> Coleen
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