RFR: JDK-8293410: Remove GenerateRangeChecks flag

[Damon Fenacci]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 07:11:35 GMT, Tobias Hartmann <thartmann 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.
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>> 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!

@TobiHartmann @chhagedorn thanks for your reviews and @vnkozlov for your explanation as well!

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