jdk-sandbox: Changelog

6990754: Use native memory and reference counting to implement SymbolTable Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

6608385: G1: need to support parallel reference processing Summary: Implement support for ParallelRefProcEnabled in the reference processing that takes place at the end of G1 concurrent marking. Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

7014261: G1: RSet-related failures Summary: A race between the concurrent cleanup thread and the VM thread while it is processing the "expanded sparse table list" causes both threads to try to free the same sparse table entry and either causes one of the threads to fail or leaves the entry in an inconsistent state. The solution is purge all entries on the expanded list that correspond go regions that are being cleaned up. Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

7013718: G1: small fixes for two assert/guarantee failures Summary: Two small fixes to deal with a guarantee failure (the marking thread should join the SuspendibleThreadSet before calling a method that does pause prediction work so that said method is never called during a pause) and an assert failure (an assert is too strong). Reviewed-by: iveresov, johnc

7014247: CTW fails when compile sun/misc/AtomicLongCSImpl (REMOVED from JDK7) Summary: Use lea to compute field address in AtomicLongCSImpl::attemptUpdate() intrinsic on x86. Reviewed-by: never, kvn

7008809: should report the class in ArrayStoreExceptions from compiled code Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

6809483: hotspot:::method_entry are not correctly generated for "method()V" Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

7011839: JSR 292 turn on escape analysis when using invokedynamic Summary: Currently escape analysis is turned off when EnableInvokeDynamic is true. Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

6566340: Restore use of stillborn flag to signify a thread that was stopped before it started Summary: Restore use of stillborn flag Reviewed-by: acorn, alanb

7014711: Fork HS20 to HS21 - renumber Major and build numbers of JVM Summary: Update the Major and Build numbers for HS21 Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Added tag hs20-b07 for changeset c2f2ee35ff81

Added tag jdk7-b128 for changeset 5eecea832c83

7016976: Documentation for required ant version on JDK7 builds on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 Reviewed-by: rinaldo

7014634: By default, only build the product bits with a closed jdk build (like openjdk does) Reviewed-by: katleman, cl, igor, trims

Added tag jdk7-b128 for changeset cc2af205b2d9

Added tag jdk7-b128 for changeset 7da3f5f30855

7013865: varargs: javac crashes during overload resolution with generic varargs Summary: fixed regression with varargs overload resolution that leads javac to crash Reviewed-by: jjg

6569633: Varargs: parser error when varargs element type is an array Summary: explicit error message when old-style array syntax is mixed with varargs Reviewed-by: jjg

6510286: Wording of javac error for inner classes Summary: 'inner classes cannot have static declarations' message needs to be reworked Reviewed-by: jjg

6968793: issues with diagnostics Summary: several diagnostic improvements Reviewed-by: jjg

6943278: spurious error message for inference and type-variable with erroneous bound Summary: type-inference should ignore erroneous bounds Reviewed-by: jjg

6982999: tools must support -target 7 bytecodes Reviewed-by: jjg, jrose

7011272: langtools build.xml should provide a patch target Reviewed-by: jonathan, jjh

6571165: Minor doc bugs in JavaCompiler.java Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

6419926: JSR 199: FileObject.toUri() generates URI without schema (Solaris) Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

6949040: java.dyn package must be compiled with -target 7 or better Summary: issue error (rather than warning) when @PolymorphicSignature is found and target < 7 Reviewed-by: jjg

7007432: Test generic types well-formedness Summary: add a new kind of check (well-formedness of generic type w.r.t. declared bounds) in the type-harness Reviewed-by: jjg

6992698: JSR 292: remove support for transient syntax in polymorphic signature calls Summary: special syntax to denote indy return type through type parameters should be removed (and cast shall be used instead) Reviewed-by: jjg, jrose

7010528: javadoc performance regression Reviewed-by: jjg

6430241: Hard to disable symbol file feature through API Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

6993305: starting position of a method without modifiers and with type parameters is incorrect Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

6396503: javac should not require assertions enabled Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

6992999: fully remove JSR 308 from langtools Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

Added tag jdk7-b127 for changeset 97fc02571ce4

Added tag jdk7-b127 for changeset 610f48fcaf6f

Added tag jdk7-b127 for changeset 784082330dbc

Added tag jdk7-b127 for changeset ee4e45399c23

6950375: Remove msvcrt.dll from the Windows JRE bundles Reviewed-by: prr

7008047: remove sanity check of msival tool from JDK tree Reviewed-by: billyh

6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image Reviewed-by: alanb