RFR: 8338257: UTF8 lengths should be size_t not int

[David Holmes]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:44:52 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This work has been split out from JDK-8328877: [JNI] The JNI Specification needs to address the limitations of integer UTF-8 String lengths
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>> The modified UTF-8 format used by the VM can require up to six bytes to represent one unicode character, but six byte characters are stored as UTF-16 surrogate pairs. Hence the most bytes per character is 3, and so the maximum length is 3*`Integer.MAX_VALUE`.  Though with compact strings this reduces to 2*`Integer.MAX_VALUE`. The low-level UTF8/UNICODE API should therefore define UTF8 lengths as `size_t` to accommodate all possible representations. Higher-level API's can still use `int` if they know the strings (eg symbols) are sufficiently constrained in length.  See the comments in utf8.hpp that explain Strings, compact strings and the encoding.
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>> As the existing JNI `GetStringUTFLength` still requires the current truncating behaviour of ` UNICODE::utf8_length` we add back `UNICODE::utf8_length_as_int` for it to use.
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>> Note that some API's, like ` UNICODE::as_utf8(const T* base, size_t& length)` use `length` as an IN/OUT parameter: it is the incoming (int) length of the jbyte/jchar array, and the outgoing (size_t) length of the UTF8 sequence. This makes some of the call sites a little messy with casts.
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>> Testing:
>>  - tiers 1-4
>>  - GHA
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> It doesn't look like GHA is configured for you here.

Thanks for looking at this @coleenp !

> It doesn't look like GHA is configured for you here.

I run it manually via the "actions" page.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20560#issuecomment-2297656882