RFR: 8286660: codestrings gtest fails on AArch64: "udf" in padding [v2]

Mon May 16 11:28:04 UTC 2022

On Mon, 16 May 2022 11:21:40 GMT, Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > Any other opinions? I'll integrate this soon.
> 
> I guess it's OK, but ewww. Is it really right to be scanning code memory that hasn't been written?

The last time I checked, CodeBuffers are filled/zeroed to help disassemblers to parse the unwritten sections. The padding code there was quite hairy to fix...

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8695