[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: 8193266: AArch64: TestOptionsWithRanges.java SIGSEGV

[Rahul Raghavan]

< Just resending below review request email from Stuart for 8193266 
including aarch64-port-dev also. Thanks.>


-- On Saturday 06 January 2018 12:13 AM, Stuart Monteith wrote:
I've removed the AARCH64 conditionals, added the empty line I removed,
and changed the type of "use_XOR_for_compressed_class_base" to bool.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smonteith/8193266/webrev-5/

BR,
     Stuart

> On 4 January 2018 at 14:45, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 04/01/18 14:26, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
>>>   I was going to offer to sponsor this since it touches shared code but
>>> I'm not sure I like that there's AARCH64 specific code in
>>> universe.cpp/hpp.   And the name is somewhat offputting, suggesting
>>> implementation details of one target leaking into shared code.
>>>
>>> set_use_XOR_for_compressed_class_base
>>>
>>> I think webrev-3 looked more reasonable, and could elide the #ifdef
>>> AARCH64 in the shared code for that version.   And the indentation is
>>> better.
>>
>> I hate the #ifdef AARCH64 stuff too, but it's always a sign that there
>> is something wrong with the front-end to back-end modularization.  We
>> can handle the use_XOR_for_compressed_class_base later: we really
>> should have a way to communicate with the back ends when the memory
>> layout is initialized.  We can go with webrev-3.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Haley
>> Java Platform Lead Engineer
>> Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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