[Patch] Overflows in array allocation.

[Bryce McKinlay]

On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 16:37 Pacific/Auckland, Ralph Loader 
wrote:

> The two array allocation functions in prims.cc have overflow problems.

Hi Ralph,

FYI all these patches so far are accepted, pending the copyright 
assignment documentation.

> A better fix might be change the allocation functions to take size_t
> rather than jint / jsize.  That would change quite a few places, and 
> I'm
> not sure if / what requirements there are not to change the ABI of the
> functions & objects involved.  I can do this if it's wanted.

For the internal allocation functions (ie where the argument is in 
bytes), we should probably change to size_t, especially if it makes 
things cleaner. Obviously we can't change the functions that are called 
directly by the compiler (where the argument is the array size), as 
those are defined to be a Java int by the language spec.

Regards

Bryce.