RFR: 8261142: AArch64: Incorrect instruction encoding when right-shifting vectors with shift amount equals to the element width [v10]

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Wed Feb 24 10:55:04 UTC 2021


On 24/02/2021 07:33, Dong Bo wrote:
> Weird, I took a look at the the assembly, `ssra` did accessed by the tests on our server:

I don't doubt it, but the test code is so very complex that it can
fall foul of heuristics given slightly changed circumstances. That's
why good test cases are as simple as possible, and allow no room for
variations because they do only one thing. Precise targeting should
be the goal of HotSpot back-end test cases.

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