Request for reviews (S): 7080431: VM asserts if specified size(x) in .ad is larger than emitted size

[Tom Rodriguez]

Is this effectively a partial anti-delta of the fill_buffer changes?

tom

On Aug 17, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:

> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kvn/7080431/webrev
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> 7080431: VM asserts if specified size(x) in .ad is larger than emitted size
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> It was allowed to specify larger size(x) in mach node definition in .ad file than actual emitted instruction size. It was treated as upper bound on instruction size. 7063629 changes broke that, it requires size(x) in mach node definition match the emitted size which reduced flexibility in C2 development.
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> Move code from finalize_offsets_and_shorten() to fill_buffer() to restore previous behavior.