[jdk21u-dev] RFR: 8324858: [vectorapi] Bounds checking issues when accessing memory segments

[Paul Sandoz]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 13:25:22 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Clean backport to fix the preview feature. This helps users to detect out of bounds before they break important applications, or fail to work in production-ready version of Vector API. There were some conflicts in copyright years, which I resolved by fixing the templates and regenerating the tests.
> 
> Additional testing:
>  - [x] macos-aarch64-server-fastdebug, `jdk/incubator/vector`
>  - [x] linux-aarch64-server-fastdebug, `jdk/incubator/vector`
>  - [x] linux-x86_64-server-fastdebug, `jdk/incubator/vector`
>  - [x] linux-aarch64-server-fastdebug, `tier{1,2,3,4}`

Marked as reviewed by psandoz (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk21u-dev/pull/237#pullrequestreview-1870737393