[jdk21u-dev] RFR: 8333890: Fatal error in auto-vectorizer with float16 kernel.

[duke]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:00:07 GMT, Satyen Subramaniam <ssubramaniam at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Backporting JDK-8333890: Fatal error in auto-vectorizer with float16 kernel. Fixes an assertion failure seen while auto-vectorizing conversion chain involving float16 type by constraining the container type for ConvF2HF IR to short type upfront. Adds test to confirm.

@satyenme 
Your change (at version ad2cec4a1bedcbfce94d273eea41634efb646d48) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk21u-dev/pull/1549#issuecomment-2776091137