RFR 8178949: The split verifier allows anewarray to create an array of more than 255 dimensions.

[George Triantafillou]

Hi Harold,

Looks good!

-George

On 4/21/2017 3:08 PM, harold seigel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review this updated fix for JDK-8178949: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_8178949.2/webrev/index.html
>
> The updated fix is more efficient than my original fix.
>
> Note that the updated fix only affects verifier.cpp. 
> TestANewArray.java hasn't changed from the original fix.
>
> Harold
>
>
> On 4/20/2017 9:09 AM, harold seigel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review this small JDK-10 fix for anewarray bytecodes that try 
>> to create arrays with more than 255 dimensions.
>>
>> Open Webrev: 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_8178949/webrev/index.html
>>
>> JBS Bug:  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178949
>>
>> The fix was tested with JCK lang and vm tests, the JTreg hotspot, 
>> java/io, java/lang, java/util and other tests, the RBT tier2 -tier5 
>> tests, the co-located NSK tests, and with JPRT.
>>
>> Thanks, Harold
>>
>