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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:56:49 -0400

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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:56:49 -0400
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6742641: G1: NullPointerException during GCOld
Summary: An update buffer is not processed correctly, which causes roots into the collection set not to be scanned and, hence, for the heap to be corrupted. The cause is that an object is accessed after it has been explicitly deleted, which causes a race.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, ysr

     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.

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