LoadCompressedPointer

[Lukas Stadler]

This is required - for compressed Klass* pointers in the object header.
These are compressed pointers to non - garbage collected structures.

- Lukas

On Aug 19, 2013, at 11:04 PM, Mick Jordan <mick.jordan at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 8/19/13 12:54 PM, Venkatachalam, Vasanth wrote:
>> After a recent merge, I noticed some new logic in AMD64Move.LoadCompressedPointer() routine:
>> 
>> assert kind = Kind.Object || kind = kind.Long;
>> 
>> Can someone explain why we would allow kind = kind.Long?
>> 
>> What cases would trigger a call to LoadCompressedPointer where kind = Kind.Long?
>> 
>> 
> This is probably another case where a Word type (rewritten to Kind.long) is involved. I don't like it.
> 
> Mick
>