RFR: 8269516: AArch64: Assembler cleanups

Mon Jun 28 12:41:52 UTC 2021

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:32:25 GMT, Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The core of the AArch64 assembler is unnecessarily complex, with multiple indirections from class Assembler. We can get rid of them, which makes libjvm.so faster and smaller. Also, there are some dubious casts from FloatRegister to Register which should use a proper conversion function.

Tested Linux/AArch64 tier1.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4612