`CardTable` reserves one extra card to detect overflow accesses, by checking whether that card holds a special value.
An alternative could be make that extra card inaccessible (not commit) at all, which would catch the invalid access on the card table.
An alternative could be make that extra card inaccessible (not commit) at all, which would catch the invalid access on the card table.
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JDK-8294569 Remove CardTable::_last_valid_index
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- Resolved
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JDK-8294671 Remove unused CardValues::last_card
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- Resolved
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