> This patch adds checks in AbstractLinker to reject packed structs and structs > with excess padding (e.g. unnamed bitfields), since both of those are > currently not supported, and the ABI/spec seems too vague to base support on.
Jorn Vernee has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains seven additional commits since the last revision: - fix TestIllegalLink - Merge branch 'PR_21' into RejectPacked - Merge branch 'PR_21' into RejectPacked - add javadoc + fixes for trailing padding - fix check for padding. Add check for trailing padding too - Reject packed structs and structs with extra padding - Check byte order of layouts passed to linker ------------- Changes: - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13164/files - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13164/files/819214b2..eaf0c9c6 Webrevs: - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=13164&range=04 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=13164&range=03-04 Stats: 41274 lines in 1168 files changed: 20700 ins; 16740 del; 3834 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13164.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/13164/head:pull/13164 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13164