[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR(XS): 8211320: Aarch64: unsafe.compareAndSetByte() and unsafe.compareAndSetShort() c2 intrinsics broken with negative expected value

[Andrew Haley]

On 10/01/2018 11:09 AM, Roland Westrelin wrote:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~roland/8211320/webrev.00/
> 
> Intrinsics for unsafe.compareAndSetByte() and
> unsafe.compareAndSetShort() don't properly deal with sign extension:
> load exclusive doesn't sign extend loaded value but comparison is done
> with sign extended value.

Ooh, that's tricky. I wonder if we should do this inside cmpxchg().
Mind you, that would cause cmpxchg() to have a side effect on an input
operand.

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Andrew Haley
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