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

[Tom Rodriguez]

On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:11 PM, John Rose wrote:

> 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.

If we really wanted to support it would be nice to do so in a platform  
independent way.  If it's good for one arch it's a good idea for all.

tom


> -- John