Request for reviews (XS): 6996240: The BitSet.length method sometimes returns an index+1 value less than that of the highest bit set.

Christian Thalinger christian.thalinger at oracle.com
Tue Nov 2 12:23:55 PDT 2010


On Nov 2, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> You can also just declare dst to be iRegIsafe which is an integer  
> held in a register that's also safe for longs.  That might give a  
> better register allocation.  Either way is fine though.


I didn't know there is such an operand type.  Using iRegIsafe sounds  
better to me:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/6996240/webrev.02/

-- Christian


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