RFR: 8369511: PPC64: compiler/vectorapi/VectorMaskCompareNotTest.java fails when running without VectorRegisters

Wed Oct 15 08:17:19 UTC 2025

On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:21:45 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The test `VectorMaskCompareNotTest` requires 16 Byte vectors (or larger). If the machine only uses 8 Byte vectors, we get an exception in the static initializer because the code tries to use a 4 Byte vector which is unsupported (stack trace: see JBS issue). This is an alternative to https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/27749.

@TheRealMDoerr I'll approve after some internal sanity testing :)

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27805#issuecomment-3405123517