LoadCompressedPointer

[Christian Wimmer]

But then the assertion also needs to cover Kind.Long for 32 bit systems, 
or not?

-Christian


On 8/19/2013 11:57 PM, Lukas Stadler wrote:
> 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
>>
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