RFR: JDK-8254189: Improve comments for StackOverFlow and fix in_xxx() functions [v2]

[Gerard Ziemski]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 07:27:33 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi,
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>> may I please have reviews for this small cleanup / fix?
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>> While reviewing JDK-8253717 it was found that comments would help with understanding the StackOverFlow class. Especially the fact that the various _base_ are actually pointing outside their respective zone, since the stack grows downward and a zone (and the stack itself) range is [end, base). If you don't look at this code daily it can be surprising.
>> 
>> This also fixes some small off-by-one errors in various "in_stack_xxx_zone()" methods which test whether a given address is inside a zone and gave wrong results for address=base since base points outside its zone. This had the effect that an address could be in multiple zones.
>> 
>> Finally it adds a small gtest which tests the StackOverFlow methods.
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> Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Feedback David

Marked as reviewed by gziemski (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/795