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

John Rose John.Rose at Sun.COM
Wed Mar 11 14:11:17 PDT 2009


On Mar 11, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:

>> Hmm, it's in the repository since duke at 0.  Anyone else who knows
>> something about that?
>
> I believe it's been there since the beginning, I'd just never  
> noticed it.  According to SCCS it goes back to 1998.

I wrote it to help debug the sparc port.  I don't think it has found  
many bugs since then.  I suppose it could be retired, and resurrected  
easily enough if somebody wanted it.  It certainly doesn't need to be  
in the AD file; it could be refactored (with some care) into  
assembler_sparc.

-- John



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