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Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:43:59 -0500
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7121623: G1: always be able to reliably calculate the length of a forwarded chunked array
Summary: Store the "next chunk start index" in the length field of the to-space object, instead of the from-space object, so that we can always reliably read the size of all from-space objects.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, jmasa

aoqi@0 1 README:
aoqi@0 2 This file should be located at the top of the hotspot Mercurial repository.
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aoqi@0 4 See http://openjdk.java.net/ for more information about the OpenJDK.
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aoqi@0 6 See ../README-builds.html for complete details on build machine requirements.
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aoqi@0 8 Simple Build Instructions:
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aoqi@0 10 cd make && gnumake
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aoqi@0 12 The files that will be imported into the jdk build will be in the "build"
aoqi@0 13 directory.
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