RFR: 8361494: [IR Framework] Escape too much in replacement of placeholder [v3]

Marc Chevalier mchevalier at openjdk.org
Fri Jul 11 07:30:55 UTC 2025


> In `RawIRNode::regex`, the call to `String::replaceAll` doesn't quote the replace string.
> 
> Meaning that in the IR rule
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> @IR(failOn = {IRNode.ALLOC_OF, "\\w+"})
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> The interpreted `\w` is interpreted as a group reference, and we get
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> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal group reference
> 
> so we should write instead
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> @IR(failOn = {IRNode.ALLOC_OF, "\\\\w+"})
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> To mean the interpreted string `\\w`, to mean an escaped single backslash. Same goes with `$` (used for nested classes).
> 
> Since we don't want to refer to groups (and anyway, there are not in `IRNode.IS_REPLACED`), we just quote the replacement string with `java.util.regex.Matcher.quoteReplacement` to make it more usable.
> 
> Note that you would still need to write `\$` since the `$` is the end of string regex, and needs to be escaped at the regex level (and not at the string, so it's not `$`, since `$` is not a special character). Before the fix, it should be `\\\$`. Phew! Regexes are bad enough, let's not escape them manually twice!
> 
> In `test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/c2/TestMergeStores.java`, that makes us save 1344 backslashes.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marc

Marc Chevalier has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26243/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26243/files/da6d7b0d..606e2242

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26243&range=02
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26243&range=01-02

  Stats: 2 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 2 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26243.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/26243/head:pull/26243

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26243


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