RFR (XS): 8025566: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in compiled by C1 String.valueOf method

[Christian Thalinger]

Thank you, John.

On Oct 2, 2013, at 11:38 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:

> Reviewed.
> 
> On Oct 2, 2013, at 8:17 PM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025566
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/8025566
>> 
>> 8025566: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in compiled by C1 String.valueOf method
>> Reviewed-by:
>> 
>> The problem is in ciMethod::ensure_method_data().  The call to ciMethodData::load_data() can fail when the backing metadata pointer is null and return with a still empty method data.  So we have to check here for non-emptiness.
>> 
>> I also removed ciMethodData::set_mature().  This method was only used with the old JSR 292 implementation.
>> 
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