Request for reviews (XXL): 6961690: load oops from constant table on SPARC

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Christian,

I like this code better but I still think that we should have a flag
which controls how we load constant oops and longs.
We may do it by just adding predicate(flag) into .ad file. Could you,
please, check? And yes, we may need to keep some code you removed.

Instead of using new flag ConstantTableAbsoluteAddressing (we have more
flags than we need already) you should use Matcher's variable like next:

const bool Matcher::clone_shift_expressions = true;

I don't understand how MachConstantBaseNode::size() is not called
on sparc where there is code generated for it? You need the size.
It seems, you have to calculate it manually.

I think you don't need to add_req() in constructor and then use
set_req(root) since new MachConstantBase node is only created in
Compile::mach_constant_base_node() so you can add_req(root) there

Thanks,
Vladimir

Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>> My fault.  I was thinking that we're using RDPC when the node is not 
>> pinned, but that's not the case.  Of course it works when not using RDPC.
> 
> This became a bigger change that I thought it will be.  I moved almost 
> all logic into Compile, the constant table emission and the offset/size 
> calculation are now two different steps which are called explicitly in 
> Compile::Fill_buffer, and the constant table base materialization is not 
> pinned.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/6961690/webrev.02/
> 
> -- Christian