RFR(XS) 8224558: x86 Fix replicateB encoding

[Deshpande, Vivek R]

Hi Vladimir

They both(Repl4B_mem vs loadB+Repl4B ) would be same in this case. May  be we can remove the memory variants as the current memory variants are not correct.
I can prepare a patch according to that.

Regards,
Vivek

-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Ivanov [mailto:vladimir.x.ivanov at oracle.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 11:04 AM
To: Deshpande, Vivek R <vivek.r.deshpande at intel.com>; 'hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net compiler' <hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Subject: Re: RFR(XS) 8224558: x86 Fix replicateB encoding


> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vdeshpande/8224558/webrev.00/

What's the benefit of keeping those memory variants now and not simply rely on a pair of load + replicate instructions to match (ReplicateB (LoadB mem)) (e.g., Repl4B_mem vs loadB+Repl4B)?

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov