RFR(S): 8214773: Replace use of thread unsafe strtok

Tobias Hartmann tobias.hartmann at oracle.com
Tue Dec 4 10:22:47 UTC 2018


Hi Nils,

this looks good to me but I prefer consistency of the pointer asterisk in declarations. I.e., either
use "char* var" (preferred) or "char *var". No new webrev required.

Thanks,
Tobias

On 04.12.18 11:01, Nils Eliasson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hotspot has a few uses of the thread unsafe strtok function. Most of the them are probably benign
> since they happen during startup. The use in compilerDirectives however has been reported to cause
> errors in user applications that also use strtok though jni. (See bug report or mail to compiler list.)
> 
> In this patch I replace all uses of strtok. The call need to go through the os specific files since
> windows uses a different function (strtok_s) than the rest of the platforms (strtok_r).
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214773
> 
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neliasso/8214773/webrev.01/
> 
> Thanks to Andre Gillet at Nuance who reported the bug.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nils Eliasson
> 


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