RFR: 8231779: crash HeapWord*ParallelScavengeHeap::failed_mem_allocate

[Poonam Parhar]

Hello Dean,

On 3/19/20 3:26 PM, Dean Long wrote:
> Do you need a comment nearby so that nobody accidentally undoes this 
> fix in the future?

Yes, of course; good idea! I will add a comment in the code.

regards,
Poonam
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> dl
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> On 3/19/20 7:36 AM, Poonam Parhar wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review this simple change that avoids a double to float 
>> conversion that would fix an intermittent crash seen on Solaris boxes 
>> due to corrupted float values in the Floating Point registers.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~poonam/8231779/webrev.00/
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231779
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Poonam
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