RFR (S): 8211394: CHECK_ must be used in the rhs of an assignment statement within a block (original) (raw)

Lois Foltan lois.foltan at oracle.com
Mon Oct 8 11:41:15 UTC 2018


Looks good David. Lois

On 10/7/2018 6:08 PM, David Holmes wrote:

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211394 webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8211394/webrev/

If a CHECK macro is used on a function call that is part of a return statement i.e. return foo(CHECKNULL); then it expands into an unreachable if-statement that checks the exception state: return foo(); if (EXCEPTIONOCCURRED) return NULL; This is obviously a programming error, but unfortunately not something our often pedantic compilers complain about. There are two ways to fix: 1. Convert to assignment: T* t = foo(CHECKNULL); return t; 2. If the method is local and its exception behaviour easily discernible and matches the expected behaviour, then change CHECK to THREAD return foo(THREAD); Both fixes are applied as appropriate. As per the bug report I also revisited an earlier fix in this area - JDK-8062808 - and made adjustments. Thanks, David



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