RFR: 8366984: Remove delay slot support

Tue Sep 9 10:59:48 UTC 2025

On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 14:24:50 GMT, Daniel Jeliński <djelinski at openjdk.org> wrote:

> SPARC was the only supported architecture that uses a delay slot. The SPARC port was removed in JDK 15, and the code is effectively dead. Let's remove it.
> 
> The changes are no-op on all architectures that do not use delay slots. I still tested tier 1-5 on mach5, no related failures.

Thanks for the answers!

You'll of course have to merge the dependency, and get a second review :)

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27119#issuecomment-3270142011