RFR: 8277508: need to check has_predicated_vectors before calling scalable_predicate_reg_slots [v2]

[Yadong Wang]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 01:15:30 GMT, Yadong Wang <yadongwang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi, Team,
>> A separate set of predicate registers is not mandatory for an implementation of scalable vectors. It will cause a failure in some platform which supports scalable vectors without explicit predicated registers, like riscv. All code about RegVectMask should be covered by has_predicated_vectors here in Matcher::init_first_stack_mask().
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>> Yadong
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>   8277508: need to check has_predicated_vectors before calling scalable_predicate_reg_slots

Thanks. Could I have another (R)eviewer?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6492