RFR(L) 8073583: C2 support for CRC32C on SPARC

[John Rose]

Thanks, James. 

One more comment, which is at a higher level:  Could we recode the loop control in Java and use unsafe to handle word and byte loads? Then we would only need single instruction intrinsics.

– John

> On May 4, 2015, at 5:57 PM, james cheng <james.cheng at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
>> On 5/4/2015 5:39 PM, John Rose wrote:
>>> On May 4, 2015, at 2:30 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com <mailto:vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kvn/8073583/webrev.00/
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8073583
>>> 
>>> Contributed by: James Cheng
>> 
>> I took a quick look at the assembly code.  I have a few comments.
> 
> Many thanks for your quick review and comments.  I will make changes
> as you suggested as soon as I can.
> 
> Thanks,
> -James