[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR(L): 8231441: AArch64: Initial SVE backend support

[Nick Gasson]

On 08/20/20 17:08 pm, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>
>> I meant move the test itself - entry() and asm_check() in
>> assembler_aarch64.cpp - under test/hotspot/gtest. The generator would
>> move with it.
>
> Hmm. I'm still not sure how this would work. Let's see the patch and
> we can talk about it. It still sounds to me rather like pointlessly
> moving the furniture around.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ngasson/asmtest/webrev.0/

Then you'd run it with

  make exploded-test TEST="gtest:AssemblerAArch64"

The downside is that it won't run on every startup of a debug build, but
it will run in the tier1 tests, including for release builds, which
arguably gives more coverage. It looks a lot tidier to me, but that's
clearly subjective.

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Thanks,
Nick