On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 10:20, Severin Gehwolf <sgehw...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-11-21 at 06:47 +0000, Andrew Hughes wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 15:39, Severin Gehwolf <sgehw...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > snip... > > > > > > > > Two reasons: (1) JDK-8140482 isn't a small change. (2) The patch > > > doesn't apply cleanly[1] from JDK 9 so would be some work to get the > > > pre-requisite in. > > > > > > It appears the code is already out of sync and the risk would be higher > > > if we backported all of JDK-8140482 for a relatively small change of > > > JDK-8210836. > > > > > > The aim was to keep the backport as minimal as possible. > > > > > > > Not too bad. I've proposed it: > > > > https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2018-November/035349.html > > Nice! The JDK 12 change from 8210836 applies as-is (post-path- > shuffeling) with this dependency in place. > > Thanks, > Severin >
Ah, good! That's what I hoped. Then 8210836 should be just an approval. -- Andrew :) Senior Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Web Site: http://fuseyism.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/gnu_andrew_java PGP Key: ed25519/0xCFDA0F9B35964222 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = 5132 579D D154 0ED2 3E04 C5A0 CFDA 0F9B 3596 4222
