RFR: 8344104: TestMergeStores fails with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException [v2]

[Christian Hagedorn]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 07:05:59 GMT, Emanuel Peter <epeter at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Test-bug: `RANDOM.nextInt()` would occasionally return a `min_int`. And sadly this overflows: `Math.abs(min_int) == min_int`. Wen we calculate it `% 100`, it still gives us a negative value, and we end up out of bounds. Fixed with a mask.
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> Emanuel Peter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   do what shipilev said

Hitting the unlikely but at least it produced a 42 instead, though a negative one :-)

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Marked as reviewed by chagedorn (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22080#pullrequestreview-2435247224