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add an "inflating" entry to the "table" of bit patterns in share/oops/markWord.hpp

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    • Enhancement
    • Status: Resolved
    • P4
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 16
    • 16
    • hotspot
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    • b13
    • generic
    • generic

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      David H. sent the following e-mail:

      On 8/16/20 10:42 PM, David Holmes wrote:
      <snip>

      > I see you pushed this but it isn't really what I was looking for.
      > Specifically I wanted the fact that an all-zero header meant
      > "inflating" would be clear from the added text. At the moment if I see:
      >
      > // [ptr | 00] locked ptr points to real header on stack
      >
      > // [header | 0 | 01] unlocked regular object header
      >
      > // [ptr | 10] monitor inflated lock (header is wapped out)
      >
      > // [ptr | 11] marked used to mark an object
      >
      > then it appears that checking for 00 in lsb is sufficient to identify a
      > locked object. But that isn't true because all zeros means inflating.
      > I had hoped to see that explicitly added e.g.
      >
      > // [0 ... 0| 00] inflating inflation in progress
      >
      > then your new text. At a minimum I would have liked the new text
      > to actually state that the INFLATING value is all zeroes.
      >
      > Sorry that my expectations were not clear enough.

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