RFR: 8170322: Specialized functions convert booleans to numbers

[Attila Szegedi]

+1.

If I understand it correctly, it was only Array.concat and Array.push that needed this? That’s good, it means it wasn't a really widespread problem.

Attila.

> On 25 Nov 2016, at 12:52, Hannes Wallnöfer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Please review: 
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> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170322
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8170322/webrev/
> 
> This adds a new „convertsNumericArgs“ property to the SpecializedFunction annotation that defines whether it is safe to convert non-numeric arguments for this function to numbers. This is used at link time to decide whether the specialised function can be used with a boolean parameter. I also removed a few specialised functions with long parameters which are no longer in use.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hannes