RFR: 8203344: Make C1 leal patchable on SPARC

[Nils Eliasson]

Looks good,

Nils


On 2018-05-17 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