On 8/29/12 7:25 AM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
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Very nice find:
I did some research (archeology), the change that introduced this:
changeset: 2223:c7f3d0b4570f
user: never
date: Fri Mar 18 16:00:34 2011 -0700
summary: 7017732: move static fields into Class to prepare for
perm ten removal
I had forgotten that static fields moved from the instanceKlass
into Class. The original code from 2005 did indeed work as expected
way back then. In fact, there were three such uses in jvmtiTagMap.cpp
back then and it looks like the other two uses were updated to use
the Java mirror and one was missed.
Right. This explains how it did happened.
Thanks,
Serguei
Dan
