Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:58:58 -0700
7190310: Inlining WeakReference.get(), and hoisting $referent may lead to non-terminating loops
Summary: In C2 add software membar after load from Reference.referent field to prevent commoning of loads across safepoint since GC can change its value. In C1 always generate Reference.get() intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, dholmes, johnc
1 README:
2 This file should be located at the top of the hotspot Mercurial repository.
4 See http://openjdk.java.net/ for more information about the OpenJDK.
6 See ../README-builds.html for complete details on build machine requirements.
8 Simple Build Instructions:
10 cd make && gnumake
12 The files that will be imported into the jdk build will be in the "build"
13 directory.