RFR: 8281472: JVM options processing silently truncates large illegal options values [v2]

[Harold Seigel]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 14:24:00 GMT, Harold Seigel <hseigel at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this change to fix JDK-8281472.  The fix prevents truncation of large illegal option values by rejecting those values if they exceed the range of their type.  For example, it rejects values of int options that are not between max_int and min_int.
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>> The fix was tested by running Mach5 tiers 1-2 on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows, and Mach5 tiers 3-5 on Linux-x64 and Windows-x64.
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>> Thanks, Harold
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> Harold Seigel has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   add gtest, fix TestParallelGCThreads.java, and revise implementation

Thanks Ioi and David for your reviews and assistance with this change!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7522