RFR: aarch64: add support for vectorizing floating-point fabs & fneg

[Edward Nevill]

On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 16:21 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 09/26/2015 10:25 AM, Felix Yang wrote:
> >     Please review the v2 patch:
> > http://people.linaro.org/~felix.yang/aarch64-fabs-fneg-v2.diff
> > <http://people.linaro.org/~felix.yang/aarch64-fabs-fneg-v1.diff>
> >     How about this one?
> 
> That looks good.  The test case generates pleasingly vectorized code
> and the patch appears not to break anything.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
> 

Hi,

I have created a JIRA issue and webrev for this.

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8138583

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~enevill/8138583/webrev/

As this modifies shared code could someone sponsor it and push it through JPRT.

Thanks for your help,
Ed.