Request for reviews (S): 7012965: Fix failed on sparc for 7009756: volatile variables could be broken throw reflection API

Vladimir Kozlov vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com
Tue Jan 18 15:48:25 PST 2011


Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> What does the .volatile directive do?  Is that supported in older sparc assemblers?  Otherwise it looks ok.
> 
> tom

".volatile - Defines the beginning of a block of instruction. The instructions in the section may not be changed. The block of instruction should end at a .nonvolatile pseudo-op and should not contain any Control Transfer Instructions (CTI) or labels."
".nonvolatile - Defines the end of a block of instruction. The instructions in the block may not be permuted."

All other methods in this file have these directives for long time so I copied it to be consistent.
This code will be backported only into JDK6 where we had these directives already.


More information about the hotspot-compiler-dev mailing list