RFR: 8314949: linux PPC64 Big Endian: Implementation of Foreign Function & Memory API [v4]

[Jorn Vernee]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 14:54:05 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Do you see a good place for such a comment?

PPC CallArranger seems like a good place to me. We have a similar explanation comment in the AArch64 CallArranger.

> Maybe it would be better to use a different size for the last chunk. Maybe three or five Bytes. That's even less straight-forward.

Does the size matter that much? It just changes the shift amount right? Could use `short` as type for `z` as well.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15417#issuecomment-1705409739