RFR: 8297657: name demangling intermittently fails

Tue May 9 12:59:34 UTC 2023

On Tue, 9 May 2023 08:27:25 GMT, Fredrik Bredberg <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Fixes an intermittent name demangling problem (due to the uninitialized AbstractDecoder::_decoder_status field).
> The problem affected hs-err stack traces on macosx-aarch64 and macosx-amd64.
> 
> I've done manual testing to verify the problem and the solution.
> Also run tier1-5 after the fix without seeing any new problems.

It looks like this bug could have been prevented if AbstractDecoder had a constructor that initialized _decoder_status with the value passed down from the sub-class. Maybe this RFE could be an opportunity to improve this?

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13883#pullrequestreview-1418565699