RFR: 8074895: os::getenv is inadequate

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Mon Mar 30 20:32:09 UTC 2015


On 31/03/2015 12:51 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>
> 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.

This one is, it applies only to the next line:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2c8f766e.aspx

I was attempting to minimize the impact by only disabling the warning 
where it was occurring. But I can broaden the scope to cover the whole 
function with a push/pop instead if people really think that would be 
better.

Thanks,
David

> 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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