Re: [Jikesrvm-core] Recent improvements tidy ups

[Peter D. <pe...@re...>]

> > I've been trying to think how we can perform more automated bug finding
> > in particular for GC map issues.

Oh and I should mention that there is a bunch of source processing
tools we could be using to detect violations such as casts/conversions
from magic types. I suspect we still have violations of this rule in
the codebase but they have not popped up as that bit of code does not
get executed etc.

However if we ran something like PMD [1] with a few custom rules we
could identify all these problems prior to even compiling the source
code (let alone waiting for it to crop up during runtime or bootimage
creation).

[1] http://pmd.sourceforge.net/

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Cheers,

Peter Donald