Scala occasionally generates exception handler tables with interval
bounds which fall outside the range of valid bytecode indexes, so we
must clamp them or risk out-of-bounds array accesses.
Since we use Thread::code to store a reference to either the method to
be invoked or the current bytecode being executed depending on the
context, we must be careful to switch it back to the bytecode of the
exception handler if an exception is thrown while invoking a method
(e.g. an UnsatisfiedLinkError).
There was a subtle bug in that we were not considering alignment
padding for fields defined in superclasses when calculating field
offsets for a derived class when the superclass(es) were visited by
the bootimage generator before the derived class.
Floats are implicitly promoted to doubles when passed as part of a
variable-length argument list, so we can't treat them the same way as
32-bit integers.
The previous code caused frequent seed collisions for successive calls
to the no-arg constructor, even for single threaded workloads. This
patch should avoid such collisions in both single and multi-threaded
cases.
The previous code caused frequent seed collisions for successive calls
to the no-arg constructor, even for single threaded workloads. This
patch should avoid such collisions in both single and multi-threaded
cases.
Apple's linker tends to remove functions which are never called, which
is not what we want for e.g. vmPrintTrace, since that function is only
intended to be called interactively from within GDB.
My previous attempt wasn't quite sufficient, since it was too late to
call join on a thread which had already exited given the code was
written to aggressively dispose of system handles as soon as the
thread exited. The solution is to delay disposing these handles until
after we're able to join the thread.
The bug here is that when a thread exits and becomes a "zombie", the
OS resources associated with it are not necessarily released until we
actually join and dispose of that thread. Since that only happens
during garbage collection, and collection normally only happens in
response to heap memory pressure, there's no guarantee that we'll GC
frequently enough to clean up zombies promptly and avoid running out
of resources.
The solution is to force a GC whenever we start a new thread and there
are at least N zombies waiting to be disposed, where N=16 for now.
