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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8255544

Create a checked cast

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        In many places we've added C-style casts to silence compiler warnings, for example when truncating a size_t to an int when we know the size_t is a small struct. Such casts are inherently risky, because they effectively disable useful compiler warnings. We should add a form of cast that checks at runtime that a truncation does not overflow.

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