RFR(M): 8210887: Tweak C2 gc api for arraycopy
Roland Westrelin
rwestrel at redhat.com
Tue Sep 25 08:37:27 UTC 2018
Hi Tobias,
> Looks good to me. I'm assuming the currently unused arguments of array_copy_requires_gc_barriers
> will be used for Shenandoah? Why you need to distinguish between ArrayCopyPhase?
Thanks for the view.
Yes extra arguments are to be used by shenandoah.
Generating barriers once parsing is over is not supported by all
gcs. The shape of the barriers is sometimes too complicated to be
emitted at igvn time.
Roland.
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