On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 23:25:43 GMT, Kim Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:

> Please review this change to offset_of to just use offsetof as it's
> implementation. The rationale for this is
> 
> (1) Despite being UB for some cases that we use (through C++14), none of the
> compilers we use actually treat it as such, other than some compilers issuing
> warnings. (Surprisingly, the UB doesn't appear to disable constexpr 
> evaluation?)
> 
> (2) C++17 changed it to be conditionally defined in those formerly UB cases,
> and we'll be switching over to C++17 soon (JDK-8314488).
> 
> Until we make the switch to C++17 we need to suppress warnings from some
> compilers for such uses. We can remove that warning suppression later.
> 
> See the JBS issue for more discussion.
> 
> Testing: mach5 tier1

Nice. Is it worth pushing this so near the transition to compile with C++17 
support?

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Marked as reviewed by stefank (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27061#pullrequestreview-3179298085

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