[jdk20] Integrated: 8299561: VaList.empty() doesn't return a list associated with the global scope

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 10:49:09 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This patch fixes a long-standing conformance issue: `VaList.empty` is specified to return a `VaList` associated with the global scope, but in some platforms (Aarch64/Linux and x64/Linux) the empty list is associated with an implicit scope instead.
> 
> This doesn't make a lot of difference, given that the empty list is always stored in a static final in the underlying implementation - that said, it would be a good thing to rectify this conformance issue.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 9c4ed16b
Author:    Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk20/commit/9c4ed16be2fdb20f2917a6e8efacfbb30d3118b1
Stats:     6 lines in 3 files changed: 4 ins; 0 del; 2 mod

8299561: VaList.empty() doesn't return a list associated with the global scope

Reviewed-by: jvernee

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk20/pull/82