RFR: 8237521: Memory Access API fixes for 32-bit

[Andrew Haley]

On 1/23/20 10:22 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> That aside IIRC the overflow check is not ideal here because we already 
> enter undefined behaviour territory inside align_up if we actually 
> overflow.

How is that possible? size_t is an unsigned type, and unsigned types
never overflow. On a 32-bit box, 0 <= size < 2**32. So -- in theory at
least -- you could allocate more than 2G.

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