RFR: 8227168: Cleanup usage of NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY

[Leo Korinth]

On 02/09/2019 15:21, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 14:23 +0200, Leo Korinth wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> After I got caught doing an unnecessary check on the return value of
>> NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY (a mistake that I copied) I thought it would be good
>> to do a cleanup in the sources so that others would not fall into
>> this trap. This is the result.
>>
>> I have removed some places where the VM will be shut down after
>> NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY returns NULL (it never does return NULL, it does
>> instead exit). I have also removed lots of unnecessary casts, that
>> might hide bugs.
>>
>>
> [...]
>>
>> Bug:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8227168
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lkorinth/8227168/
>>
>> Testing:
>> mach5 tier1-3 (solaris, linux, windows, mac)
> 
>    looks good. Thanks.
Thanks for the review!
/Leo
> 
> Thomas
> 
>