[10] RFR(S): JDK-8184943: AARCH64: Intrinsify hasNegatives

[Andrew Haley]

On 20/07/17 19:27, Dmitrij Pochepko wrote:
> Btw: I've also considered such unconditional 8-bytes load at start, but 
> abandoned this idea since I wasn't sure if it's safe. Say, array is 
> allocated at the border of allocated region(so, last array byte == last 
> allocated region byte). Then hasNegatives is called with offset == 
> array_length - 1 and len = 1 just to check last byte, so, then 8-byte 
> load is issued at this address?

It's certainly possible.  We can't read an address beyond our byte
array if there is any possibility that we're at the end of a page,
because we might hit a segfault.  We could test for that.

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Andrew Haley
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