Loop safepoints and backedge copies

Gary Benson gbenson at redhat.com
Fri Mar 20 05:50:52 PDT 2009


Hi all,

I'm writing a compiler that uses the HotSpot's typeflow pass.

Is it safe to say that for backwards branches (target bci <= current
bci) you only need to insert a safepoint check when the block you are
in is a backedge copy?

Cheers,
Gary

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