RFR (s): 8208162: Support for multi-dimensional value arrays is incomplete

[Karen Kinnear]

Mr Simms,

Code changes look good and logic makes sense.

thanks for the quick fix!
Karen

> On Jul 25, 2018, at 6:16 AM, David Simms <david.simms at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8208162
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> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dsimms/valhalla/8208162/
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> I believe the intention of the "ObjArrayKlass::_bottom_klass" field was always to hold an instance klass that contained user class that might require a number of checks, e.g. access checking for reflection, module access etc...
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> A value of "typeArrayKlass" simply denoted, "system type". I believe assigning a valueArrayKlass to this field to be incorrect, the fix is simply to pick out the valueArrayKlass element type as "bottom klass"
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> Testing: internal tier1, and Ioi's consistency tests now exhibit correct behavior.
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> Cheers
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> /David Simms
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