RFR: 8203344: Make C1 leal patchable on SPARC

[Erik Österlund]

Hi Tobias,

Thank you for the review.

Thanks,
/Erik

On 2018-06-12 11:36, Tobias Hartmann wrote:
> 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