RFR: 8335298: Fix -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant warning in G1CardSetContainers

Ivan Walulya iwalulya at openjdk.org
Sat Jun 29 07:48:17 UTC 2024


On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:01:06 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this change to the G1CardSetInlinePtr default constructor to
> avoid -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant.  The problem is that it is casting a
> constant 0 to a pointer.  Because casting 0 to a pointer is what this code
> needs to do, the options are to (1) suppress the warning, or (2) write the
> code in such a way as to dodge the warning.  We take the latter approach, as
> it involves less source code clutter.  We expect an optimizing compiler to
> produce the same code either way.
> 
> Also simplified the constructors by using delegation.
> 
> Testing: mach5 tier1.
> Locally (linux-x64) verified the warning no longer occurs with this change.

LGTM!

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Marked as reviewed by iwalulya (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19955#pullrequestreview-2149387754


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