RFR: 8276472: align_metadata_size documents metadata alignment

Thu Jan 20 22:44:52 UTC 2022

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 23:20:37 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I just added a comment to this and took out the align_up call.  I like align_metadata_size where it is and changing to WordSize doesn't add more safety imo.  Also found unused function while looking for units of metadata size.
> Tested with tier1 on Oracle supported platforms.

How about this: 8276472: align_metadata_size documents metadata alignment #7150

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7150