RFR JDK-8022407 sun/misc/CopyMemory.java fails with SIGSEGV in Unsafe_SetByte+0x35

[Christian Thalinger]

On Aug 27, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Lois Foltan <lois.foltan at oracle.com> wrote:

> Please review the following fix:
>    open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_jdk8022407/
> 
> Bug:
>    bug link at https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8022407
> 
> Summary of fix:
> 
> The JDK 8 build on MacOS, when built with the Xcode 4.6.2 clang++ compiler, exhibited a compiler optimization issue when prims/unsafe.cpp was compiled at the default -Os level. As a work around fix, knock the optimization level down down to -O0.

Why are we lowering to -O0 when you state in the bug report that -O1 also works?  What is the code that breaks?

-- Chris

> 
> Tests:
>    MacOS: built fastdebug & product images using clang++ (ran JTREG & vm.quick.testlist)
>                   built using llvm-g++ to verify prims/unsafe.cpp remained compiled at -Os
> 
> Thank you,
> Lois
> 
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