RFR: 8170812: Metaspace corruption caused by incorrect memory size for MethodCounters

[Andrew Haley]

On 06/04/17 11:35, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> 
> I think it would make sense. From what I can see, the following methods are affected:
> 
> ConstantPool::header_size()

Not this one, because the declaration of ConstantPoolCache is

  int             _length;
  ConstantPool*   _constant_pool;          // the corresponding constant pool

The size of this declaration must be a multiple of wordSize
because the fields must be allocated in order, they must be
aligned, and _constant_pool comes last.

It's very confusing code, but not actually a bug, IMO.

Andrew.