[aarch64-port-dev ] Error (but not bug) in MacroAssembler::repne_scanw

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Wed Sep 10 18:40:06 UTC 2014


On 09/10/2014 04:47 PM, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> If this routine is only used to manipulate arrays of oops (which appears
> to be the intent of the JDK7-x86 code) then the supplied size really
> ought to be heapOopSize both here and in repne_scan. However, I think
> the intention in JDK8 is always to scan an array of 64 bit values. So, I
> have followed suit in JDK and passed wordSize/2.

OK.  Please commit a patch to do this in 8 & 9.

Thanks,
Andrew.



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