On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:27:37 GMT, Stefan Karlsson <stef...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>>> The _reference_type used to be initialized correctly in most cases, but >> needed fixing up for a few cases during bootstrapping. With this change it is >> never initialized correctly for Reference subtypes and always needs an >> initialization kludge for them. That's not an improvement. >> >> I don't agree that this is a kludge. This is quite common in HotSpot, and >> the code is quite understandable. It's far better than the initialization >> kludge the code had before this patch. >> >> I'd like to suggest that we go with the proposed patch, and consider the >> Kim's latest proposal as a follow-up RFE. That way we can make progress on >> this RFE, and then weigh the pros and cons of this suggestion separately. > > Talked to Albert. He's already created a patch for this, so I retract my > objection to this blocking of the PR. Revised as Kim suggested. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/8332
