RFR: JDK-8293410: assert(ptr != top()) failed: top should go hand-in-hand with stopped

[Tobias Hartmann]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:32:54 GMT, Damon Fenacci <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The JVM crashes with an assertion failure when array range checks are disabled using `-XX:-GenerateRangeChecks` and we're trying to access the array with an index outside its boundaries.
> 
> Such a behaviour is actually expected. What is unclear is the reason for having a _GenerateRangeChecks_ flag (basically to force not to perform range checks). An inspection of the change that introduced the flag didn't clarify its original use-case.
> 
> So, removing the `GenerateRangeChecks` flag.

Looks good to me!

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Marked as reviewed by thartmann (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11964