RFR: 8074895: os::getenv is inadequate

Coleen Phillimore coleen.phillimore at oracle.com
Mon Mar 30 14:51:36 UTC 2015


On 3/29/15, 9:39 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 27/03/2015 5:24 PM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
>> I hate to see legacy cruft deliberately introduced into the codebase.  I
>> guess it is too painful to turn it off in a makefile?  Stuff ignored by
>> compilers in rarely touched code like this tends to turn crufty and
>> become confusing, e.g., something I saw a month or two ago:
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/hotspot/file/f68d656d1f5e/src/share/vm/oops/instanceKlass.cpp#l784 
>>
>>
>> Referring you to a page in what you have to think about for a second
>> before you realize is JVMS v1, which has been obsolete since 2000, and
>> is unavailable from the publisher.
>
> But happens to be the version you would find sitting on the 
> bookshelves of the Oracle VM team members :) A section reference would 
> be better than a page number, but even they change over time.
>
>> Doing it this way seems fine to me, but I don't know anything about
>> suppressing warnings on Windows, so that's not a firm endorsement.  Not
>> that my non-reviewer endorsement would do you any good.
>
> Okay. Still need a second review - calling Coleen!

This seems fine although I think I'd prefer the #pragma nowarnings out 
of the middle of the functions to not interrupt reading of these 
functions.  I don't think #pragmas are scoped.

Coleen

>
> I'd really like to get this out of my repo and pushed :)
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:41 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com
>> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Okay I managed to fix this with:
>>
>>     --- old/src/share/vm/utilities/__growableArray.hpp 2015-03-26
>>     02:34:35.715892476 -0400
>>     +++ new/src/share/vm/utilities/__growableArray.hpp 2015-03-26
>>     02:34:34.663833288 -0400
>>     @@ -168,6 +168,8 @@
>>         GrowableArray(int initial_size, bool C_heap = false, MEMFLAGS F
>>     = mtInternal)
>>           : GenericGrowableArray(initial___size, 0, C_heap, F) {
>>           _data = (E*)raw_allocate(sizeof(E));
>>     +// Needed for Visual Studio 2012 and older
>>     +#pragma warning(suppress: 4345)
>>           for (int i = 0; i < _max; i++) ::new ((void*)&_data[i]) E();
>>         }
>>
>>     @@ -385,6 +387,8 @@
>>           E* newData = (E*)raw_allocate(sizeof(E));
>>           int i = 0;
>>           for (     ; i < _len; i++) ::new ((void*)&newData[i]) 
>> E(_data[i]);
>>     +// Needed for Visual Studio 2012 and older
>>     +#pragma warning(suppress: 4345)
>>           for (     ; i < _max; i++) ::new ((void*)&newData[i]) E();
>>           for (i = 0; i < old_max; i++) _data[i].~E();
>>           if (on_C_heap() && _data != NULL) {
>>
>>     So unless someone finds this totally objectionable it is what I
>>     propose to go with. Full webrev at:
>>
>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~__dholmes/8074895/webrev/
>>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8074895/webrev/>
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     David
>>
>>
>>     On 25/03/2015 2:24 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>
>>         On 24/03/2015 2:56 AM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
>>
>>             Thanks, Kim.  This is a pretty silly warning to have break
>>             the build.
>>             Does anyone have a problem with PODs being default
>>             initialized?  That's
>>             required by the standard, so if you do, then you are Doing
>>             It Wrong.
>>
>>             I assume it is pretty easy to turn the warning off. I'd do
>>             it, but I
>>             don't have the Windows build-fu necessary.  Also, do we
>>             think it would
>>             require another bug?
>>
>>
>>         Unless someone else can already tell me how I will try to 
>> find the
>>         cycles to either disable the warning in that file (if that
>>         works) else
>>         disable it in the build - which will need a new CR I think.
>>
>>         David
>>
>>             I'd hate to have to change my (or any) code for this.
>>
>>             Jeremy
>>
>>             On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Kim Barrett
>>             <kim.barrett at oracle.com <mailto:kim.barrett at oracle.com>
>>             <mailto:kim.barrett at oracle.com
>>             <mailto:kim.barrett at oracle.com>__>> wrote:
>>
>>                  On Mar 23, 2015, at 3:45 AM, David Holmes
>>             <david.holmes at oracle.com <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>
>>                  <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.__com
>>             <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>>> wrote:
>>                  >
>>                  > On 23/03/2015 4:12 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>                  >> On 21/03/2015 3:32 AM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
>>                  >>> Argh.  Yes.  Martin told me not to get involved
>>             with Windows,
>>             but would
>>                  >>> I listen?  Of course not...
>>                  >>>
>>
>> >>>http://cr.openjdk.java.net/__~jmanson/8074895/webrev.04/
>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmanson/8074895/webrev.04/>
>>                  >>
>>                  >> Looks okay to me - running a test job now.
>>                  >
>>                  > <sigh> This just isn't meant to be :( It seems that:
>>                  >
>>                  > GrowableArray<JavaVMOption> options(2, true);
>>                  >
>>                  > in arguments.cpp is giving the windows compiler some
>>             grief:
>>                  >
>>                  >
>> C:\jprt\T\P1\071814.daholme\s\__hotspot\src\share\vm\__utilities/growableArray.hpp(__171)
>>             : error C2220: warning treated as error - no 'object' file
>>             generated
>>                  >
>> C:\jprt\T\P1\071814.daholme\s\__hotspot\src\share\vm\__utilities/growableArray.hpp(__168)
>>             : while compiling class template member function
>> 'GrowableArray<E>::__GrowableArray(int,bool,__MEMFLAGS)'
>>                  >        with
>>                  >        [
>>                  >            E=JavaVMOption
>>                  >        ]
>>                  >
>> C:\jprt\T\P1\071814.daholme\s\__hotspot\src\share\vm\runtime\__arguments.cpp(3516)
>>             : see reference to class template instantiation
>>             'GrowableArray<E>'
>>             being compiled
>>                  >        with
>>                  >        [
>>                  >            E=JavaVMOption
>>                  >        ]
>>                  >
>> C:\jprt\T\P1\071814.daholme\s\__hotspot\src\share\vm\__utilities/growableArray.hpp(__171)
>>             : warning C4345: behavior change: an object of POD type
>>             constructed
>>             with an initializer of the form () will be 
>> default-initialized
>>                  >
>> C:\jprt\T\P1\071814.daholme\s\__hotspot\src\share\vm\__utilities/growableArray.hpp(__388)
>>             : warning C4345: behavior change: an object of POD type
>>             constructed
>>             with an initializer of the form () will be 
>> default-initialized
>>                  >
>> C:\jprt\T\P1\071814.daholme\s\__hotspot\src\share\vm\__utilities/growableArray.hpp(__379)
>>             : while compiling class template member function 'void
>>             GrowableArray<E>::grow(int)'
>>                  >        with
>>                  >        [
>>                  >            E=JavaVMOption
>>                  >        ]
>>                  >
>>                  > I'm guessing it doesn't like the enum as the generic
>>             arg, but
>>             don't know why given that it accepts plain int elsewhere. 
>> ???
>>
>>                  Just suppressing this warning (unconditionally
>>             everywhere) would
>>                  probably make sense.
>>
>>                  Microsoft describes it as an obsolete warning:
>>
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-__us/library/wewb47ee.aspx
>> <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wewb47ee.aspx>
>>
>>                  "This warning is obsolete. It is only generated in
>>             Visual Studio
>>                  2005 through Visual Studio 2012. It reports a behavior
>>             change from
>>                  the Visual C++ compiler that shipped in Visual Studio
>>             .NET when
>>                  initializing a POD (plain old data) object with (); the
>>             compiler
>>                  default-initializes the object.”
>>
>>                  It’s too bad the JDK9 supported build platform for
>>             Windows is still
>>                  lagging.
>>
>>
>>



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