switching on keys of type long

Doug Simon doug.simon at oracle.com
Wed Nov 6 10:57:40 PST 2013


This comes from TypeSwitchNode.

On Nov 6, 2013, at 7:43 PM, Venkatachalam, Vasanth <Vasanth.Venkatachalam at amd.com> wrote:

> Can someone explain why the emitCode( ) routine of AMD64ControlFlow.SequentialSwitchOp is handling the case:
> 
> else if (key.getKind() = Kind.Long)  ?
> 
>> From my understanding of Java, it's not possible to switch on keys of type long. You get a compile time error.
> 
> Vasanth



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