RFR: 8374889: C2 VectorAPI: must handle impossible combination of signed cast from float [v2]

[Emanuel Peter]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:11:52 GMT, Dean Long <dlong at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @dean-long @merykitty @rose00 I did the refactor. We could now consider doing a separate refactor for the non-parsing use-cases of `HaltNode`, but that's out of scope.
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>> Of course there is a small risk that I messed up something here, so please review carefully - we don't want to accidentally mess up `HaltNode`s and loose their asserting powers!
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>> Of course there is a small risk that I messed up something here, so please review carefully - we don't want to accidentally mess up HaltNodes and loose their asserting powers!
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> Looks good to me, but I suspect we don't have great test coverage for HaltNodes, since they are never supposed to get executed.

@dean-long @merykitty Thanks for the reviews!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29169#issuecomment-3774349716