RFR: 8160969: aarch64: CDS is broken after 8079507

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/07/16 18:28, Jiangli Zhou wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
>> On Jul 7, 2016, at 7:05 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> This one was reported by Ningsheng Jian at Linaro.
>>
>> It's a simple error which happened when merging the x86 changes for CDS.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8160969/
> 
> 
> Just curious, what failure did it run into with SharedStrings. JDK-8160969 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8160969> doesn’t give much detail.

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#  Internal Error (/home/aph/hs-comp/hotspot/src/cpu/aarch64/vm/macroAssembler_aarch64.cpp:2336), pid=17631, tid=17634
#  assert(false) failed: DEBUG MESSAGE: patching the wrong bytecode

This is because it is trying to patch an unpatchable bytecode.

Andrew.