6892749: assert(UseParNewGC || UseSerialGC || UseConcMarkSweepGC, "...") fails
Summary: Removed the assert: UseSerialGC is not necessarily always set when serial gc is being used.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, tonyp
--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/memory/genCollectedHeap.hpp Fri Oct 16 02:05:46 2009 -0700
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/memory/genCollectedHeap.hpp Tue Oct 20 00:00:23 2009 -0700
@@ -266,8 +266,11 @@
// only and may need to be re-examined in case other
// kinds of collectors are implemented in the future.
virtual bool can_elide_initializing_store_barrier(oop new_obj) {
- assert(UseParNewGC || UseSerialGC || UseConcMarkSweepGC,
- "Check can_elide_initializing_store_barrier() for this collector");
+ // We wanted to assert that:-
+ // assert(UseParNewGC || UseSerialGC || UseConcMarkSweepGC,
+ // "Check can_elide_initializing_store_barrier() for this collector");
+ // but unfortunately the flag UseSerialGC need not necessarily always
+ // be set when DefNew+Tenured are being used.
return is_in_youngest((void*)new_obj);
}