[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: 8143067: aarch64: guarantee failure in javac (adrp out of range in relocation)

[Andrew Haley]

On 18/11/15 13:06, Edward Nevill wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 15:34 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
> New webrev
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~enevill/8143067/webrev.02
> 
>
> I have kept the adrp/nop and adrp/movk for generating the out of
> range addresses as this is 2 instructions instead of the 3 for
> movz/movk/movk.
> The byte map base is almost always out of range because of the way
> it is calculated - IE. (byte map) - (heap base) >> 9 - so using 2
> instructions as above gives a small performance boost.

That's a lot better.  However, I'm going to ask for one more change.
I don't think there is any need for the use of NOP instead of MOVK #0
in that corner case.  Take that out, and we have a clean and simple
patch.

Andrew.