RFR: 8375046: C2: Assertion failed in GrowableArray::remove_till(0) [v4]

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:59:18 GMT, Vladimir Ivanov <vlivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The code implicitly assumes that `_late_inlines` is not empty and it's a reasonable assumption. Any particular reason to handle empty case instead of finishing early?

The case shows up in CTW -- and fairly rarely at that -- so I think there is no reason for us to care all that much about that corner case, as long as it does not break correctness. Current code just creates the noise in testing, so we are fixing that noise.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29171#issuecomment-3767576733