RFR: 8171221: Remove -XX:+CheckMemoryInitialization

Thomas Schatzl tschatzl at openjdk.org
Wed May 24 12:05:07 UTC 2023


On Tue, 23 May 2023 16:25:35 GMT, Albert Mingkun Yang <ayang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> 
>>   please review this change that removes the broken (verified) -XX:+CheckMemoryInitialization debug flag. Interestingly there are some test cases that explicitly check this functionality without problems, but they are simply not thorough enough.
>> 
>> Apparently this has been broken since at least 2016, and given that nobody cared to fix it since then I think it's not worth trying to salvage it here either.
>> 
>> Testing: local compilation, gha
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>   Thomas
>
> Marked as reviewed by ayang (Reviewer).

Thanks @albertnetymk @shipilev for your reviews

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14101#issuecomment-1560990502


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