RFR: 8139674: aarch64: guarantee failure in TestOptionsWithRanges.java

[Edward Nevill]

On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 16:55 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 10/15/2015 04:51 PM, Edward Nevill wrote:

> Thanks.  Do we know that it cannot overflow even the +ve offset range?
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 

Yes. Because mdp points at the method data struct, so all the fields are small positive offsets. The problem happens when you increment mdp after all the args at the end of the mdp struct. Then the offset can become <= -256.

All the best,
Ed.