RFR: JDK 9: 8143879 jdk/internal/jimage/JImageReadTest.java crashes jvm in msvcr120.dll

[Jim Laskey (Oracle)]

+1

> On Dec 1, 2015, at 7:18 PM, Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at Oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Please review a fix for jimage native code to correctly maintain the list of ImageFileReaders.
> 
> Issue:
>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143879
> 
> Webrev:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-jimage-read-8143879/
> 
> (It appears Jake has the same bugs but that's a separate issue/fix).
> 
> And its not clear why it fails on Windows mostly; but the malloc algorithm
> may be sufficiently different on Linux to avoid the reuse.
> 
> Thanks, Roger
>