RFR(S): 8210676: Remove some unused Label variables

[coleen.phillimore at oracle.com]

On 9/13/18 9:38 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 14/09/2018 11:22 AM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 13, 2018, at 6:17 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks good - though the proof is in the building of course.
>>>
>>> The debug-only use of notDouble in 
>>> src/hotspot/cpu/x86/templateTable_x86.cpp seems somewhat odd.
>>
>> Would you prefer to see it declared next to the other labels, but 
>> guarded with ASSERT?
>
> No what you have is fine. I'm just curious about why the double case 
> is only examined in a non-product build ??

The notDouble label is sort of a switch default label, which we only 
care about in debug.  Otherwise it falls off into code below.

thanks,
Coleen
>
> David
>
>> Cheers,
>> Mikael
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 14/09/2018 9:03 AM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>>>> Please review this change which removes a bunch of unused Label 
>>>> variables. Would appreciate some help from aarch64/ppc/s390x folks 
>>>> to verify it!
>>>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210676
>>>> webrev: 
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mikael/webrevs/8210676/webrev.03/open/webrev/
>>>> * Background (from bug)
>>>> [~dholmes] noticed during the code review of JDK-8210381 that the 
>>>> "Label Egress" variable in macroAssembler_sparc.cpp was unused. It 
>>>> and other unused labels like it should be removed.
>>>> * About the change
>>>> I have *not* tried to find and remove *all* unused Label variables, 
>>>> because that turns out to be much harder than it might seem. I may 
>>>> or may not follow up on this work to remove additional unused Label 
>>>> variables later, but before that I’m investigating removal of other 
>>>> unused variables in general. Meanwhile I like to think that this is 
>>>> a reasonable cleanup anyway.
>>>> * Testing
>>>> tier1 build&test passes.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Mikael
>>