RFR: 8307160: [REDO] Enable the permissive- flag on the Microsoft Visual C compiler [v2]

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 06:53:49 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I wrote this code ages ago. I'm not sure what's weird or suspicious about it, though. The comment at the file's beginning explains this code's motivation.
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>> The buffer was never thought to be used for something different than HANDLEs or characters, where the assignment of integer literals work. I often use char constants for sentinels as debugging aid. As for `'\0'`, that indicates to the casual code reader that this is a termination of a string, better than had I used a plain 0.
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> Because there is nothing to state what T may be, I found assigning character literals to be odd. If T is char and the buffer is meant to be a C string then it makes more sense. But for non-char T it just raised questions for me.

I see that. We can remove the sentinel stuff, which leaves us with the zero termination. Arguably, this could be done by sub classes that derive from the char instantiation.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15096#discussion_r1288083649