RFR: 8301404: Factor out os::malloc with os::realloc common code, so that we only have 1 code path [v8]

[Stefan Karlsson]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 13:28:06 GMT, Gerard Ziemski <gziemski at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Thank you for the review Coleen, unfortunately this looks like a dead end, since Johan and Stefan do not see this as an improvement. Stefan has suggested an alternate impl, which does clean up things nicely, even though it does not address at all my concerns and reasons for working on this fix.
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> Is that correct? Johan, Stefan, you are NO on this?

Right. I don't think the goal of having 1 code path here is currently leading to a cleanup that makes the code easier to read or maintain.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24189#issuecomment-2769830996