changeset 23725:5595ab8ba8bd jvmci-0.17

documented DummyCompilerFactory
author Doug Simon <doug.simon@oracle.com>
date Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:19:42 +0200
parents cad643390ae2
children 4a61c3e64ab4
files jvmci/jdk.vm.ci.hotspot/src/jdk/vm/ci/hotspot/HotSpotJVMCICompilerConfig.java
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/jvmci/jdk.vm.ci.hotspot/src/jdk/vm/ci/hotspot/HotSpotJVMCICompilerConfig.java	Sun Jul 03 00:13:33 2016 +0200
+++ b/jvmci/jdk.vm.ci.hotspot/src/jdk/vm/ci/hotspot/HotSpotJVMCICompilerConfig.java	Mon Jul 04 10:19:42 2016 +0200
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@
 
 final class HotSpotJVMCICompilerConfig {
 
+    /**
+     * This factory allows JVMCI initialization to succeed but raises an error if the VM asks JVMCI
+     * to perform a compilation. This allows the reflective parts of the JVMCI API to be used
+     * without requiring a compiler implementation to be available.
+     */
     private static class DummyCompilerFactory extends JVMCICompilerFactory implements JVMCICompiler {
 
         public CompilationRequestResult compileMethod(CompilationRequest request) {