HotSpot doesn't use NULL

Kim Barrett kim.barrett at oracle.com
Tue Nov 26 17:13:39 UTC 2024


On 11/26/24 2:24 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> When I forwarded this to our team, William suggested to add a new 
> jcheck test to warn about this. I'm not familiar with the new 
> git-jcheck, but at a first glance, this looks like an interesting 
> opportunity to me.
>
> What do you think?

Adding it to jcheck came up in an internal discussion, and the response was

"we can't easily tell jcheck to only apply rules to hotspot, so that 
would require updating jcheck with that ability as well."

But it seems like a good approach if that limitation can be solved.

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