[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8285802: AArch64: Consistently handle offsets in MacroAssembler as 64-bit quantities

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 08:46:07 GMT, Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > I take this should now be replaced by https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8285923 ?
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> Possibly not. Mainline has changed a great deal, so backporting becomes very tricky and involves a bunch of other changes if it is to be stable. At minimum, there were additional patches. Unless this is seriously biting people on 8 I wouldn't.

Ok, I'm just trying to understand where we are with this, given 8285802 in trunk was backed out and replaced with 8285923. Do you still plan to backport any of this to 8u or shall we just close this PR?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/50