RFR: JDK-8310510: WordsPerLong is wrong for 64-bit platforms

Thu Jun 22 02:42:03 UTC 2023

On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 13:42:00 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Wrong as in "does not fit hotspot terminology". All other uses of "Word" in this file mean "pointer-sized" aka "4bytes on 32-bit, 8bytes on 64-bit".

Okay, I was reading this in JVMS terminology where we talk about oneWord and twoWord values, where we have a "32-bit word"

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14580#issuecomment-1601937912