RFR: JDK-8270308: Amalloc aligns size but not return value (take 2) [v4]

Coleen Phillimore coleenp at openjdk.java.net
Mon Jul 26 13:42:03 UTC 2021


On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 05:23:41 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> My first patch filled alignment gaps in debug with a pattern, to trip off the analyzer. What do you think, should I do this here too?
Maybe. Aren't arena's freed with a zap pattern so you'd find bugs that way? Anyway, it might be better as a separate RFE and new round of testing.
Thanks for default aligning the chunks though because this is what one would expect without looking at the code more closely.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4835


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