RFR: 8176188: jdk/internal/misc/JavaLangAccess/NewUnsafeString.java failing since 9-b93 (original) (raw)

Claes Redestad claes.redestad at oracle.com
Sun Dec 3 19:53:01 UTC 2017


Hi,

the compact strings JEP changed semantics of the package-private String(char[], boolean) constructor to do the same as the public String(char[]) constructor.

Previously the former was used in trusted, internal code to avoid copying the given char[], but since the char[] now has to be converted to a byte[] that optimization is no longer possible via this method[1], and tests that checked that the returned string shared the given char[] naturally stopped working.

To fix this bug I propose the following clean-up:

Patch: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8176188/open.00/ Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8176188

Thanks!

/Claes

[1] For some of the usages here we could improve somewhat by exposingthe String(byte[], byte) constructor, but I think that's out of scope here and I think we'd best avoid leaking the coder byte implementation detail outside of java.lang.



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