On Tue, 4 Jul 2023 17:33:02 GMT, Daniel Jeliński <djelin...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this test-only fix that fixes the size of variables that are 
> used in methods that expect a pointer.
> 
> On Windows, type `long` is 32 bits, pointers are 64 bits large. The method 
> `GetThreadLocalStorage` writes a pointer (64 bits) to the address given by 
> its parameter, which overflows a `long`. The code generated by VS compiler 
> ignores this, but the code generated by clang crashes the test.
> 
> No new tests. MethodExitTest continues to pass on supported platforms, and 
> passes on clang+win with this fix.

The diff to intptr_t was an order of magnitude smaller. But I agree, the code 
looks better without the casts.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14770#issuecomment-1621120295

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