RFR [XS] 8041658: Use of -fdevirtualize on macroAssembler_x86.o (via -O2) with gcc 4.9.0 creates broken VM

[David Chase]

Could you do a placement new into that array of void*?
I can't even remember the syntax, but I recall the semantics.

David

On 2014-04-24, at 12:41 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04/24/2014 05:21 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> And I'm not quite sure how to fix this in HotSpot.
>> 
>> I first thought I could solve this with an anonymous union like:
>> 
>> union {
>>  void* _relocbuf[ _relocbuf_size ];
>>  Relocation _reloc;
>> }
>> Relocation* reloc() const { return &_reloc; }
>> 
>> but unfortunately I can't put a Relocation into a union because it is
>> not a POD (at least not with C++98).
>> 
>> Any other ideas how we could fool GCC 4.9?
>> 
>> I more and more think this should be fixed in GCC because I can
>> imagine this will also break other code.
> 
> Only code that is not legal C++, and GCC developers have historically
> been very reluctant to support that.  So, it might not happen.
> 
> AFAICS there is no C++98 way to embed a non-POD object in an object in this
> way.  It could be done via a pointer, but that wastes some space.
> 
> Andrew.
>