On Tue, 1 Feb 2022 12:42:26 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> As per this conversation: >> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/6334#discussion_r791722292 >> >> The idea was, the user is explicitly asking for asking for pac-ret so we >> should honour that. Whereas standard would only enable what is supported for >> that system. > > But we can't honour that because it is not supported. Further, the suggestion > in the referenced discussion seemed to be based on the assumption that doing > so would be harmless because it is NOP based, but you have indicated that may > not be the case and so it may actually lead to a crash! Before I change anything - @theRealAph you had an opinion here too... ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6334