Request for review (L): 6797305: Add LoadUB and LoadUI opcode class

[Christian Thalinger]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 10:53 -0700, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> >> Not sure how to rationalize all this into correspondence, except by
> >> improving bit by bit as improvements occur to us.
> >
> > Maybe I missing something here, but would it be possible to have a:
> >
> >  Address Address::make_raw(int base, int index, int scale, int disp,  
> > bool disp_is_oop) {
> >
> > function on SPARC too, so it's possible to use $mem$$Address in the AD
> > file and let (Address src, Register dst)-signature functions decide
> > which emit function to call?  Furthermore we could assert on reg-reg
> > forms that have a displacement set, which is obviously wrong.
> 
> That what I was assuming we'd do.

Should I go for it and post a webrev when I have something?

> I had no idea that sparc.ad even had support for VerifyOops.  I'm not  
> sure that logic that has to be preserved.  It could be broken out  
> separately as something that could be called from the ins_encode but  
> I'm not really married to it.

Hmm, it's in the repository since duke at 0.  Anyone else who knows
something about that?

-- Christian