Pass a pointer to JNI_GetCreatedJavaVMs() instead of null / review please

[Kumar Srinivasan]

Hi,

Please review

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ksrini/7166955


Thanks
Kumar

> On 07/05/2012 16:45, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>> Hi David, Deven, Alan,
>>> The spec doesn't say anything but the implementation does check for 
>>> NULL. I think this is a spec issue rather than a code issue (and I 
>>> think hotspot-runtime owns the JNI spec so cc'ed). It is common 
>>> practice for API's that take pointers like this to say "if buf is 
>>> not NULL then the value of XXX is written into buf". Particularly as 
>>> in this case there will only ever be at most 1 VM created 
>>> per-process anyway.
>>>
>>> I'm more concerned about the fact that the code doesn't even check 
>>> if JNI_GetCreatedVMs returns successfully!
>>
>> Ouch!, I will file a CR and fix this.
> I think HotSpot can only ever return JNI_OK so it may only be a 
> potential issue when running with another VM.
>
> -Alan