possible bug in x86 MacroAssembler::delayed_value_impl

Christian Thalinger Christian.Thalinger at Sun.COM
Fri May 15 11:27:22 PDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 11:21 -0700, John Rose wrote:
> 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.

Should I file a CR and fix it or will you do it John?

-- Christian




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