RFR: 8173472: AArch64: C1 comparisons with null only use 32-bit instructions

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Wed Feb 1 16:04:05 UTC 2017


On 01/02/17 11:56, Stuart Monteith wrote:
> There are places where T_ADDRESS type arguments are used as an array
> element pointer, and others where it is used as metadata
> pointers/offsets. Why treating T_ADDRESS types as jints works, I've
> yet to find out, but I'm working from the assumption that is is as
> much through luck as design.

Sure.  Please get back to me when you know a bit more, especially
if you have a reproducible test case.

Thanks,

Andrew.



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