4965777: GC changes to support use of discovered field for pending references
Summary: If and when the reference handler thread is able to use the discovered field to link reference objects in its pending list, so will GC. In that case, GC will scan through this field once a reference object has been placed on the pending list, but not scan that field before that stage, as the field is used by the concurrent GC thread to link discovered objects. When ReferenceHandleR thread does not use the discovered field for the purpose of linking the elements in the pending list, as would be the case in older JDKs, the JVM will fall back to the old behaviour of using the next field for that purpose.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, mchung, stefank
README-pre-components:
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Current pre-components are langtools, jaxws, jaxp, and corba.
Pre-components can use ant to build but must have a make/Makefile for
building (a GNU make Makefile).
All ant knowledge is being isolated in the workspaces that use it.
Also for various reasons it is nice to have a Makefile wrapper over the
running of ant, but in general having to do
anything with shell commands is much easier to do in a Makefile
than in an ant script.
The make/makefile rules are:
Variables:
ALT_BOOTDIR The jdk home to use to build, if provided
ALT_LANGTOOLS_DIST The dist area from a langtools build to use, if provided
ALT_OUTPUTDIR Parent dir of build and dist directories, if provided
VARIANT If DBG, debug build, if OPT, optimized build
TARGET_CLASS_VERSION The classfile version number (currently 7)
ANT_HOME Home of ant to use, if provided
QUIET If defined, be quiet
VERBOSE If defined, be verbose
JDK_VERSION Version being built
FULL_VERSION Full version string for this jdk build
MILESTONE fcs, beta, internal or empty
BUILD_NUMBER Number of the jdk build
JPRT_ARCHIVE_BUNDLE Path to zip bundle to create for JPRT
Targets:
all Build everything, including dist
build Build build area
clean Clean up
clobber Same as clean (don't ask)
sanity Perform any sanity checks, exit non-zero if errors
jprt_build_product JPRT product build, zip results into JPRT_ARCHIVE_BUNDLE
jprt_build_debug JPRT debug build, zip results into JPRT_ARCHIVE_BUNDLE
jprt_build_fastdebug JPRT fastdebug build, zip results into JPRT_ARCHIVE_BUNDLE
Then of course we expect a dist/lib/classes.jar, dist/lib/src.zip and dist/lib/bin.zip.