PATCH: using mixed types in MIN2/MAX2 functions

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Thank you, Dan

I think casting is acceptable solution. Someone in GC group should 
review and sponsor this since you touched GC code mostly.

Regards,
Vladimir

On 6/12/14 2:05 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this the last and largest part of my changes required on s390 (32-bit)
> to build OpenJDK out of the box. The MIN2/MAX2 functions are implemented
> using templates and require both arguments to be of the same type. This
> is a problem when one parameter is of size_t type and the second of
> uintx type and the platform has size_t defined as eg. unsigned long as
> on s390 (32-bit).
>
> As a solution [1] I chose to typecast the smaller type (uintx) to size_t
> which is of same or larger size.
>
> [1] http://fedora.danny.cz/openjdk/size_t/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
>