RFR: 8227168: Cleanup usage of NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY

[Leo Korinth]

On 04/09/2019 15:51, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
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> On 9/4/19 7:16 AM, Leo Korinth wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>>> […]  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.
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>>> 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.
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>> That was what I tried to do, your explanation is much better than 
>> mine, thanks Kim.
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>>>> 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 ;-)
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> How are you going to remove the NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY macros?  Is that 
> somewhere in this thread?  Everything got cut off.  Can you put all this 
> in the CR?

I am looking into replacing them with operator new, but I would like to 
see that I have a working sane version before proposing anything.

It is not related to this in any way. I feel these changes improve the 
current situation, even though NEW_C_HEAP_OBJ might not be the best 
solution, it is still /better/ than faking allocation of an array. I 
also believe it is better to remove bad usage before it is copied than 
doing nothing because the improvement is not perfect.

> What is the latest version of this patch?

I have no working code for removing those macros, but I am looking into 
it. Hopefully it will work, but lets not waste time on my ideas.

Thanks,
Leo

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> Thanks,
> Coleen
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>> 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.
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>>> I’m also not really fond of the allocation base class approach; C++11 
>>> allows some alternatives.
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