RFR: 8203344: Make C1 leal patchable on SPARC

[Tobias Hartmann]

Hi Erik,

looks good to me as well.

Thanks,
Tobias

On 17.05.2018 10:38, Erik Österlund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In C1, address resolution of an accessed field is not always possible, because the offset of the
> class of the object being accessed, has not yet been loaded. In ZGC, we use lea to resolve the
> address of fields. Therefore, the lea instruction needs to be patchable for ZGC. This enhancement
> aims to add support for such patching on SPARC.
> 
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8203344/webrev.00/
> 
> Bug:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8203344
> 
> Thanks,
> /Erik