possible bug in x86 MacroAssembler::delayed_value_impl

John Rose John.Rose at Sun.COM
Fri May 15 11:21:36 PDT 2009


On May 15, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:

> It's definitely a bug though.  I don't love the use of hlt() there  
> since it would fail somewhat mysteriously when it happened.   
> Normally we'd use something like stop("unexpected null") but maybe  
> John didn't want to expand the code so much?

Yes; it's about code size, but a stop would be OK too, since it's just  
an assert.

-- John



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