RFR: 8219006:AArch64: Register corruption in slow subtype check

[Andrew Dinn]

On 14/02/2019 18:36, Andrew Haley wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8219006/
Reviewed.

> Although the bug is present in all AArch64 versions of HotSpot, it
> only affects debug builds because rscratch2 is only used inside code
> guarded by #ifndef PRODUCT. So, I'm not thinking there's any need for
> a backport.

If you also add the qualification that the bug does not manifest very
often then I'll agree to that.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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