RFR: 8149330: Capacity of StringBuilder should not get close to Integer.MAX_VALUE unless necessary

[Ivan Gerasimov]

Hello!

I added another regtest to perform some basic sanity checks wrt 
StringBuilder's capacity.
In this test I we only operate on relatively small sizes.
A situation when capacity grows large is checked in a separate test, 
which is ignored by default.

Do you think this fix is good to go?

BUGURL: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149330
WEBREV: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/8149330/03/webrev/

Comments, suggestions are very welcome.

Sincerely yours,
Ivan


On 23.02.2016 20:29, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Ivan Gerasimov
> <ivan.gerasimov at oracle.com> wrote:
>> While writing this, I just noticed that I actually made a mistake when did
>> newCapacity < 0 check.
>> This wouldn't catch the overflow when the oldCapacity happens to be
>> Integer.MAX_VALUE (which is not possible with the current hotspot, but may
>> become an issue one day).
> Well done!
>
> One interesting way that capacity may end up being Integer.MAX_VALUE
> is if we switch to char[] for storage.  Then in LATIN1 mode you could
> store Integer.MAX_VALUE elements even without help from hotspot!
>