RFR: 8149790: NegativeArraySizeException with hprof

[Erik Gahlin]

Looks good, not a Reviewer.

Do you really need curly braces in the switch clauses?

Erik

On 2016-04-15 16:40, Andreas Eriksson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review this test fix for 8149790: NegativeArraySizeException 
> with hprof
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149790
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aeriksso/8149790/webrev.00/
>
> Changes are to the hprof verifier, which now will pass heap dump 
> content around as JavaThing arrays instead of byte arrays, since the 
> latter cannot be guaranteed to be able to hold all the elements of 
> large arrays.
>
> There is still a problem where the test will timeout on machines with 
> lots of memory (seen on machines with 200+GB of memory) because the 
> verification takes a long time. I'll file a new bug for that problem.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas