8150045: AArch64: arraycopy causes segfaults in SATB during garbage collection

Andrew Dinn adinn at redhat.com
Thu Feb 18 15:47:54 UTC 2016


On 17/02/16 14:25, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to say this is AArch64-specific.
> 
> On 02/17/2016 02:22 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> This is a bug due to the abuse of default arguments in C++.  I, ah,
>> forgot to pass dest_uninitialized to the OOP arraycopy routines, so we
>> always scan the destination array, even though it contains garbage.
>>
>> I also took the opportunity to do a little tidying-up.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8150045/

This looks fine, including the tidying up. Reviewed as AArch64-only change.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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