RFR: 8024671: G1 generates assert error messages in product builds

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 16:37 +0400, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 04:30 PM, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> >  thanks for finding and fixing this. Also for catching the typo.
> 
> Thanks for the review, Thomas!
> 
> > On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 15:59 +0400, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Please review and push this simple change:
> >>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8024671/webrev.00/
> >>
> >> TL;DR: err_msg() is not getting erased in product builds, because
> >> check_card_num is not a macro, causing the performance regression. Turns
> >> out it is simpler to inline the check_card_num all along, because it is
> >> more consistent to other asserts.
> > 
> > I really do not like the inlining of the check_card_num() method,
> > replicating the code. I would prefer an approach that avoids that.
> 
> I thought that too before starting the patch, targeting to declare the
> proper macro for check_card_num. But, inline asserts seem be coherent
> will other asserts in the affected code blocks. Hence, I changed my
> mind, and produced the current patch.

  we can always improve the code :)

Also the use of check_card_num() has probably been an attempt to factor
out the common checking code, although it had the performance side
effects you found.

Thomas