RFR: 8186476: Generalize Atomic::add with templates

[Andrew Haley]

On 22/08/17 15:02, Erik Österlund wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On 2017-08-22 11:06, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 21/08/17 14:10, Erik Österlund wrote:
>>> When it comes to the proposed Atomic::add implementation, it seems to me
>>> like the emulation of Atomic::add on jshort using jint is very similar
>>> to how Atomic::cmpxchg on jbyte is emulated using jint. So it surprised
>>> me a bit that Atomic::add of jshort does not share the same mechanism as
>>> the generalized Atomic::cmpxchg of jbyte.
>> Indeed.  It also seems rather weird to jump through these hoops on
>> targets which do have support for adds on jshort.  Still, as you say
>> it's only used in once place and I guess it doesn't hurt.  I don't
>> like the undefined behaviour there, though.  It would be nice if there
>> were none on targets with proper support.
>>
> 
> Is that a request or are you happy enough with the proposed solution?
> In case it was really meant as a request, how about something like this?
> 
> Incremental:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8186476/webrev.01/
> 
> Full:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8186476/webrev.02/

Nope, that cure is worse than the disease, but thank you lots for trying.
:-)

I'd fix it at the source by merging those two fields and unpacking as
required, but I guess there'd be some pushback.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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