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

[Andrew Dinn]

On 20/08/2020 11:14, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2020-08-20 11:40, Nick Gasson wrote:
>> 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.
> FWIW, it definitely looks tidier to me too.
Well, perhaps this check ought to be done as a standalone test rather
than as debug build validation. I don't really have any deep commitment
either way. However, if we do proceed with this I think it ought to be
in a separate follow-up patch and with its own JIRA. It should not stop
Ningsheng's SVE patch going in as is since that merely corrects the
status quo to allow for SVE instructions.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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