RFR: 8164214: [JVMCI] include VarHandle in signature polymorphic method test

[John Rose]

On Aug 20, 2016, at 12:59 AM, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On 20 Aug 2016, at 02:26, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com <mailto:paul.sandoz at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>> It may be better to expose a new enum value in Flags and set the bit based on the _intrinsic_id, rather than JVMCI checking the range.
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>> Thus the Flags enum value for sig-poly remains constant even if the _intrinsic_id values do not (IIUC they will change when new intrinsics are added), thus less needs to be exposed to JVMCI.
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> Yes, that’s what I was thinking. The intrinsic_id range seems more subject to change than a flag.

Not at all.  There are already manifest constants for that range.  (Sorry I didn't point it out before.)
They are named FIRST_MH_SIG_POLY and LAST_MH_SIG_POLY, both in vmIntrinsics::.
Is it difficult to add them to vmStructs_jvmci.cpp?

— John
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