RFR: 8364360: Defining hidden class with no room in constant pool crashes the VM [v4]

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:42:36 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hmm ... then I would prefer simply:
>> 
>> // Don't change the type of cp_size without updating the overflow
>> // check below.
>> u2 cp_size = ...;
>
> That's a comment.  The comment isn't executable.  I prefer something that will fail.

We don't generally do this kind of thing though. We would have tons of code that depends on the type of various variables and we don't assert that those variables have the declared type.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27964#discussion_r2471497905