request for review (S): rev JVMTI version number

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon Dec 6 08:43:18 PST 2010


Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
> :
>
>
>    > The returned environment may have a different version than the
>    > requested version but the returned environment must be compatible.
>
>    If a client asks for version 1.0 or version 1.1, then it is okay
>    to return version 1.2 as long as the common parts between those
>    versions are compatible. If a client running on JDK5 or JDK6 is
>    smart enough to ask for JVM/TI version 1.2, then it can be allowed
>    to have it.
It may be safer for jdk6 to continue to return a 1.1 environment, just 
in case there are agents that would be surprised if GetVersionNumber 
returned something else.

-Alan.


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