RFR: 8364766: Improve Value() of DivI and DivL for non-constant inputs

Manuel Hässig mhaessig at openjdk.org
Fri Aug 8 14:35:11 UTC 2025


On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 08:08:25 GMT, Tobias Hotz <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR improves the value of interger division nodes.
> Currently, we only emit a good type if either input is constant. But we can also cover the generic case. It does that by finding the four corners of the division. This is guranteed to find the extrema that we can use for min/max. Some special logic is required for MIN_INT / -1, though, as this is a special case
> We also need some special logic to handle ranges that cross zero, but in this case, we just need to check for the negative and positive range once.
> This also cleans up and unifies the code paths for DivINode and DivLNode.
> I've added some tests to validate the optimization. Without the changes, some of these tests fail.

Testing is all green.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26143#issuecomment-3168157330


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