RFR: 8295657: SA: Allow larger object alignments

Wed Oct 19 22:47:05 UTC 2022

On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:59:29 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplummer at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I don't think there is anything specific in SA that prohibits it to follow what Hotspot is capable of. Are you proposing to drop the range check altogether? I can do that.
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> Yes. I don't see a need for it.

You could keep in the check to make sure it is aligned to a power of 2, since I doubt SA would work with a value that isn't, but then I don't see the possibility of hotspot ever supporting it either.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10762