stub routines and safepoints
Vladimir Kozlov
vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com
Tue Jul 24 09:57:49 PDT 2012
There should be no safepoints in such stubs, compiled code assumes that when
calls stubs. We don't have safepoint checking in counted loops (increment is
constant).
Vladimir
Deneau, Tom wrote:
> What are the requirements for safepoint checking in stub routines?
> For instance a stub that loops over a possibly long array of data.
> I didn't notice any such checking in the arraycopy stubs.
>
> -- Tom
>
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