Review request for JDK-8143304: Random failures when script size exceeds token limits

[Attila Szegedi]

So, our script size limit is 256 megacharacters. Should be enough for everyone :-)

+1 

Attila.

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Hannes Wallnoefer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Please review JDK-8143304: Random failures when script size exceeds token limits:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8059934/webrev/
> 
> This assigns 28 bits to both the position and the length in the parser token, and makes sure source files don't exceed this limit in the parser.
> 
> Previously we used 32 bits for the position and only 24 for the length. The thinking behind that probably was that a token would never be as long as the whole script but that turns out to be wrong (like for the main script function, or a very long object or array literal).
> 
> Thanks,
> Hannes
>