RFR(S): 8194993: Loop Strip Mining has some leftover debugging code

Tobias Hartmann tobias.hartmann at oracle.com
Fri Jan 12 12:44:52 UTC 2018


Hi Roland,

this looks reasonable to me. Have you verified that the code that bails out works? For example, by always bailing out
and running some tests?

Best regards,
Tobias

On 12.01.2018 13:08, Roland Westrelin wrote:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~roland/8194993/webrev.00/
> 
> I noticed I left some debugging code in the logic that finalized the
> outer loop of strip mined loops. If the strip mined loop has stores that
> were sunk out of the loop and stores on the back edge then a
> ShouldNotReachHere() is hit. I never managed to write a test case that
> triggers both conditions and they've never been caught by testing so
> far. Anyway, we don't want a crash if that ever happens in the wild and
> we probably don't want to ship untested code. What I propose instead is
> that if that ever happens, we simply drop the outer loop and leave the
> inner loop as it is (no strip mining). I left an assert so if that does
> happen we have a chance to fix that corner case.
> 
> Roland.
> 


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