On 11/09/2015 01:43 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote: > On 02/11/15 10:45, Aleksey Shipilev wrote: >> On 11/02/2015 02:56 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote: >>> In line with the intended location for other VM annotations, >>> see 8138732 [1], @sun.misc.Contended should be moved >>> to the jdk.internal.vm.annotation package. >>> >>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8140687/00/ >> >> Changes look good to me. >> >> But what's the compatibility story for JSR 166? With this move, we would >> be unable to bootclasspath JSR 166 JAR, since it references the "old" >> sun.misc.Contended? > > Correct. > > As you are aware, the 166 CVS will fork shortly to support > a JDK 9 only version. Artifacts built from the fork are of > course not impacted by this change. > > For existing 166 artifacts, they will not run on JDK 9 as > the Contended annotation will not be present.
Okay. Thanks, -Aleksey
