review(XS): 6988308: assert((cnt > 0.0f) && (prob > 0.0f)) failed: Bad frequency assignment in if
Vladimir Kozlov
vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com
Tue Apr 12 22:13:52 PDT 2011
Looks good.
Vladimir
On 4/12/11 9:37 PM, Igor Veresov wrote:
> The problem can occur in Parse::dynamic_branch_prediction(), where cnt can become negative if the block count is larger
> than max int. This is because the "sum" variable is an int and Block::count() returns uint, which if large enough will
> make "sum" become negative, causing in turn "cnt" to become negative.
>
> I treated this problem by making the "sum" a float. Also, added guards to detect overflows of "taken" and "not_taken",
> protecting therefore against overflowing an int twice when they are added together.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iveresov/6988308/webrev.00/
>
> Thanks!
> igor
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