On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:51:58 GMT, Roman Kennke <rken...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> @fisk - please chime in here... > > I agree. Also, the assert becomes true somewhat obviously because of its > first clause, which is already guaranteed > because of its placement in the surrounding else-branch (unless something > really weird happens). I am also 100% okay with just removing the random assertion. We have a whole bunch of other block iteration code in GC code that does not sprinkle random asserts about what patterns of markWords are supposedly good or bad in live/dead objects. And I also don't get what kind of bug this would catch. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/135
