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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