RFR: JDK-8320570 NegativeArraySizeException decoding >1G UTF8 bytes with non-ascii characters [v3]

[Roger Riggs]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 11:47:13 GMT, Jim Laskey <jlaskey at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> A regression is found in Java9+ creating String instance from UTF8 bytes, a side effect of string compactation https://openjdk.org/jeps/254 that changed the decoding logic. Specifically, when constructing a string from bytes: 
>> 
>> ``` 
>> String str = new String(largeBytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8); 
>> ``` 
>> 
>> if the size of largeBytes is greater than 2^30 (>1 GB) but smaller than INT_MAX (2 GB), it fails on Java9+ (including 11, 17, 21, though the stack trace is slightly different, see below), regardless of jvm heap size. In Java8, it succeeded when jvm heap size is set to be sufficient.
>
> Jim Laskey has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Requested changes

Looks good, thanks for the updates.

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Marked as reviewed by rriggs (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16974#pullrequestreview-1767792457