Request for reviews (S): 6987555: JSR 292 unboxing to a boolean value fails on big-endian SPARC

[Christian Thalinger]

On 9/30/10 7:45 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 09:40 -0700, John Rose wrote:
>> On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>>> Why aren't the values dependent on which operation is being performed then?
>>
>> They certainly can be.  That will move the complication out of the
>> assembly code. (And into methodHandles.cpp, with a new CPU-specific
>> query, plus a new but useful distinction between value conversion and
>> unboxing.)  I'm fine with doing it either way.
>
> I will look into that and try to come up with a new patch.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/6987555/webrev.02/

That works and seems to be a good patch.  It also adds a compiler test.

-- Christian