PATCH: swapped usage of idx_t and bm_word_t types in bitMap.inline.hpp

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Mon Sep 16 03:09:50 PDT 2013


Hello,

I've created a patch [1] to fix swapped usage of idx_t and bm_word_t
types in hotspot/src/share/vm/utilities/bitMap.inline.hpp

The code in hotspot/src/share/vm/utilities/bitMap.inline.hpp
incorrectly swaps the usage of the idx_t and bm_word_t types. For most
platforms these 2 types are effectively the same, so the interchange is
uncaught, but on s390 (32-bit) the size_t is "unsigned long" which
makes it incompatible with "unsigned int". The patch is result of my
understanding of the logic inside bitMap.inline.hpp, so it needs
definitely a review although I think I'm right :-) The same patch is
used in our openjdk7 Fedora packages and the code compiles and works
without issue on both s390 and s390x architectures there.

from bitmap.hpp

  typedef size_t idx_t;         // Type used for bit and word indices.
  typedef uintptr_t bm_word_t;  // Element type of array that represents
                                // the bitmap.


[1] http://fedora.danny.cz/openjdk/bitmap/webrev/

Note: I'm Red Hat employee (dhorak at redhat.com), so I should be covered
by Red Hat's CLA for my contributions.


	With regards

		Dan


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