RFR: 8286636: MacroAssembler::post_call_nop should have InstructionMark

[Andrew Haley]

On 5/12/22 14:00, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> `InstructionMark` checks the instruction boundaries, which is important for relocatable instructions. Everywhere where we do any (?) sort of relocation, we do `InstructionMark`. I found that newly ad

What is the meaning of "checks the instruction boundaries"? Just that
we make sure that we cannot ever have multiple relocations of the
same address, or something more subtle than that?

Or, how would overlapping instructions happen?

Thanks,

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