RFR: 8171221: Remove -XX:+CheckMemoryInitialization

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Tue, 23 May 2023 13:22:21 GMT, Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>   please review this change that removes the broken (verified) -XX:+CheckMemoryInitialization debug flag. Interestingly there are some test cases that explicitly check this functionality without problems, but they are simply not thorough enough.
> 
> Apparently this has been broken since at least 2016, and given that nobody cared to fix it since then I think it's not worth trying to salvage it here either.
> 
> Testing: local compilation, gha
> 
> Thanks,
>   Thomas

I like this, less things to care about on native alloc paths.

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Marked as reviewed by shade (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14101#pullrequestreview-1440174167