RFR: 8248238: Implementation of JEP: Windows AArch64 Support [v2]

[Andrew Haley]

On 21/09/2020 09:18, Bernhard Urban-Forster wrote:
> Thank you Andrew. Is the goal to reduce the patch diff in `assembler_aarch64.cpp`? If so, we need to get rid of the
> retry in your patch to avoid additional calls to `random`, e.g. something like this (the diff for the generated part
> would look indeed nicer with that:  https://gist.github.com/lewurm/2e7b0e00447696c75e00febb83034ba1 ):
> 
> --- a/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/aarch64-asmtest.py
> +++ b/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/aarch64-asmtest.py
> @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ class Register(Operand):
> 
>      def generate(self):
>          self.number = random.randint(0, 30)
> +        if self.number == 18:
> +            self.number = 17

Yes, better. Thanks.

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