diff a/src/hotspot/os/windows/perfMemory_windows.cpp b/src/hotspot/os/windows/perfMemory_windows.cpp
--- a/src/hotspot/os/windows/perfMemory_windows.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/os/windows/perfMemory_windows.cpp
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2001, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2001, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
@@ -1071,12 +1071,12 @@
   }
 
   // allocate and initialize the security attributes structure and
   // return it to the caller.
   //
-  LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSA = (LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES)
-    NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY(char, sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES), mtInternal);
+  LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSA =
+      NEW_C_HEAP_OBJ(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES, mtInternal);
   lpSA->nLength = sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);
   lpSA->lpSecurityDescriptor = pSD;
   lpSA->bInheritHandle = FALSE;
 
   return(lpSA);