RFR: 8227168: Cleanup usage of NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY

[Leo Korinth]

On 03/09/2019 20:07, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On Sep 3, 2019, at 1:19 PM, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
>> On 9/3/19 12:12 PM, Leo Korinth wrote:
>>> I have tried to use FREE_C_HEAP_OBJ correctly, and I did revert one usage of NEW_C_HEAP_OBJ to NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY as it seemed to be able to also be an array type when allocated in another place.
>>
>> […]  But I don't agree.  I don't think NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY should be used to allocate and FREE_C_HEAP_OBJ should be used to deallocate.  That's worse.
> 
> That wasn’t what was suggested.  The suggestion was to always be consistent with the pairing,
> e.g. use NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY and FREE_C_HEAP_ARRAY for an object, or use NEW_C_HEAP_OBJ
> and FREE_C_HEAP_OBJ, but never mix the pairings for a given object.  I think that’s what the
> updated change is doing.

That was what I tried to do, your explanation is much better than mine, 
thanks Kim.
> 
>> Actually, I think neither NEW_C_HEAP_OBJ or FREE_C_HEAP_OBJ should exist.  They should just use new Type(), where Type is inherited from CHeapObj<mtAppropriate>
It is my goal to remove /all/ allocation macros, but I could not fit it 
into this change ;-)

Thanks, Leo
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> I was expecting that to have widespread impact, but it seems there are far fewer uses of NEW_C_HEAP_OBJ
> than I was expecting.  But I suggest that doing anything about that is out of scope for this change.
> 
> I’m also not really fond of the allocation base class approach; C++11 allows some alternatives.
>