[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8297445: PPC64: Represent Registers as values

Fri May 10 11:10:51 UTC 2024

On Thu, 9 May 2024 00:36:30 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Backport of [JDK-8297445](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8297445). Fixes GCC 11 build warnings ([JDK-8297426](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8297426)).
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> Backport requires manual integration mainly due to unrelated context differences, but is easy to resolve.
> One hunk in templateTable_ppc_64.cpp (monitorenter) is already there.
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> Some obsolete stuff needs to get removed (see 2nd commit). `RegisterImpl::number_of_registers` is not an important constant for the SA. The x86 version of this change simply removed it (`declare_constant(RegisterImpl::number_of_registers)`): https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/755ecf6b7384e67ccb51c4498f94336631db690d
> I have kept it for the platforms which didn't backport the change. (x86 doesn't need the backport for GCC 11.)

Marked as reviewed by mbaesken (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2454#pullrequestreview-2049855093