8034182: Misc. warnings in java.net code

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Tue Feb 11 05:56:02 PST 2014


Thanks Alan, I appreciate the drive-by! The changes look good to me.

-Chris.

On 11 Feb 2014, at 13:13, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> This is drive-by fix to a number of native code warnings in the networking code.
> 
> In NET_SockaddrToInetAddress then CHECK_NULL_RETURN is used to check the return value from setInet6Address_ipaddress but the return is an int rather than a pointer. In PlainDatagramSocketImpl's mcast_join_leave then the issue is using a jbyte* when a char* is expected. In Inet6AddressImpl.c then the warning is code before declaration (the SunStudio compilers complain about that).
> 
> While looking at these warnings then I noticed that the setInet6Address_XXX functions (and one of the get functions) return a jboolean but are declared to return an int. While not wrong, it's not obvious so I changed these functions to return a jboolean.
> 
> The webrev with the proposed changes is here:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8034182/webrev/
> 
> -Alan.



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