[jdk21u-dev] RFR: 8309978: [x64] Fix useless padding

[duke]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:11:49 GMT, Satyen Subramaniam <ssubramaniam at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Backporting JDK-8309978: [x64] Fix useless padding. Adjusting code to remove possibility to useless padding in code generation and adding test. Ran GHA Sanity Checks, and local Tier 1, and Tier 2 tests. Patch is clean.

@satyenme 
Your change (at version 5f3b1c874ddef71a79fa8c18b9c6e2af4a4bdc9c) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk21u-dev/pull/1491#issuecomment-2730874329