On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 09:22:29 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>> David Holmes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
>> commit since the last revision:
>>
>> Ensure HB relationship exists; additional explanatory comments
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Thread.java
On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 22:41:44 GMT, David Holmes wrote:
>> We have the strange situation where calling `t.isAlive()` on a
>> `java.lang.Thread` `t`, will call into the VM (via `alive()` then
>> `isAlive0()`) where the VM then examines the `eetop` field of `t` to extract
>> its `JavaThread` pointe
> We have the strange situation where calling `t.isAlive()` on a
> `java.lang.Thread` `t`, will call into the VM (via `alive()` then
> `isAlive0()`) where the VM then examines the `eetop` field of `t` to extract
> its `JavaThread` pointer and compare it to null. We can simply read `eetop`
> dir
