diff src/share/vm/utilities/globalDefinitions.hpp @ 7176:59c790074993

8003635: NPG: AsynchGetCallTrace broken by Method* virtual call Summary: Make metaspace::contains be lock free and used to see if something is in metaspace, also compare Method* with vtbl pointer. Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, dcubed, jmasa
author coleenp
date Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:50:21 -0500
parents e4f764ddb06a
children 291ffc492eb6 203f64878aab
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--- a/src/share/vm/utilities/globalDefinitions.hpp	Wed Nov 28 08:43:26 2012 -0800
+++ b/src/share/vm/utilities/globalDefinitions.hpp	Wed Nov 28 17:50:21 2012 -0500
@@ -1280,4 +1280,12 @@
 
 #define ARRAY_SIZE(array) (sizeof(array)/sizeof((array)[0]))
 
+// Dereference vptr
+// All C++ compilers that we know of have the vtbl pointer in the first
+// word.  If there are exceptions, this function needs to be made compiler
+// specific.
+static inline void* dereference_vptr(void* addr) {
+  return *(void**)addr;
+}
+
 #endif // SHARE_VM_UTILITIES_GLOBALDEFINITIONS_HPP