RFR(M): Graal PTX enhancements

[Doug Simon]

On Apr 9, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:

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> On Apr 9, 2013, at 5:09 AM, Doug Simon @ Oracle <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 5, 2013, at 11:42 PM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 5, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Morris Meyer <morris.meyer at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>>> Folks,
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>>>> Could I get a review of my recent PTX enhancements to Graal?   I've changed the tests to have a base class, extended the assembler, and have taken the test coverage of PTX from 2 to 23 tests.
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>>>> Thanks in advance,
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>>>>     --morris meyer
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>>>> WEBREV - http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~morris/Graal-PTX-Enhancements.01
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>>> This is great!
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>>> Looking at:
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>>> graal/com.oracle.graal.compiler.ptx/src/com/oracle/graal/compiler/ptx/PTXLIRGenerator.java
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>>> it seems we need to turn off "Organize imports" in our favorite editor.  Also indenting seems to be an issue.
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>>> I know the answer is "use the mx script to create the IDE configuration" but no everybody is using Eclipse or Netbeans.  We need to find a way to keep this consistent without the help of an IDE (maybe Mercurial push hooks?).
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>> Any suggestions? It will at least have to be something compatible with the Eclipse formatter.
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> How about running the Eclipse formatter itself?

You are probably not going to be surprised to learn there's an mx command for that ;-)

% mx eclipseformat

Unfortunately, my experience so far has been that the formatter is not very reliable when run the command line.

-Doug