RFR: 8074895: os::getenv is inadequate

Coleen Phillimore coleen.phillimore at oracle.com
Mon Mar 30 20:39:00 UTC 2015


On 3/30/15, 4:32 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> 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.

Oh, bizarre.  Okay, leave it then.
Coleen

>
> 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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