Possible bug in StackFrameInfo#getByteCodeIndex?

[Vitaly Davidovich]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 8:45 AM, David Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 9:03 PM, mandy chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com>
> wrote:
> > On 12/11/17 6:31 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> >> Java has an unsigned 16 bit type.  Could bci be of type "char" ?
> >
> > Yes but I think keeping it short is fine.
>
> Call me strange if you like, but I never liked using char as anything
> other than a UTF-16 character.  Anyway one expects that the '0xffff'
> forms should be optimized fairly easily.
>
It's optimized - just changes the width of the load.  There's
Short::toUnsignedInt (added in Java 8) if you want code reuse :).

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