Request for review: 7011490 Wrong computation results in Test6880034

[Tom Rodriguez]

On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Vladimir Danushevsky wrote:

> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vladidan/7011490/webrev.00/
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> LinearScan::append_scope_value_for_operand() appends high and low registers of the double operand based on big endianess. On ARM platform (little endian) that causes shift in the registers allocation when copied to an expression stack during c2i deoptimization.
> x86 (being a LE) uses stack slot for a double op, therefore it's not affected.

Are you saying that x86 doesn't use this path?  That doesn't seem right to me.

> I want to make sure Zero target is not broken by that change as it could be built little endian as well. Could anyone comment on that please?

Zero doesn't use our compilers so it can't be effected.

tom

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> Thanks,
> Vlad
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