RFR: 8324686: Remove redefinition of NULL for MSVC

David Holmes dholmes at openjdk.org
Thu Apr 10 06:46:25 UTC 2025


On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 06:16:18 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this change that removes the redefinition of NULL in
> globalDefinitions_visCPP.hpp. That redefinition was to support the use of NULL
> in a varargs context, because of the size difference for int vs a pointer.
> However, we no longer have any direct uses of NULL in HotSpot, and have a test
> that ensures there is no backsliding.
> 
> There may be indirect uses of NULL via third-party libraries.  Such uses could
> have been in the scope of the removed redefinition.  But those uses must have
> been correct even without the redefinition, else they would be incorrect for
> non-HotSpot users.
> 
> Testing: mach5 tier1-3, GHA sanity tests

Looks fine. Thanks for cleaning this up.

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24537#pullrequestreview-2755514203


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