RFR: 8296168: x86: Add reasonable constraints between AVX and SSE [v2]

Wed Nov 2 22:03:25 UTC 2022

On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 21:45:46 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Should such ranges be narrowed down to the actual values supported?

Yes. 

At some point, `UseAVX` was set to `99` by default and then downgraded to the actual version. (BTW the same still happens for `UseSSE`.) I think the highest supported version should be used as the default instead.

Feel free to file a followup RFE or fix it right away.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10946