Need reviewer: JDK 8 CR for Support Integer overflow

[Tom Rodriguez]

On Feb 3, 2012, at 12:38 AM, Krystal Mok wrote:

> Hi Florian,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at bfk.de> wrote:
> Will Hotspot be able to optimize away the string construction on the
> exception path in multiplyExact() if the exception is caught locally?
> 
> At least -XX:+OptimizeStringConcat should remove the need to construct a StringBuilder instance, in multiplyExact()'s case.
> 
> Cc'ing hotspot-compiler-dev for confirmation.

Could we have some context?

tom

> 
> - Kris
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