[vector] RFR : Removed subAll() and few javadoc changes

[Ningsheng Jian (Arm Technology China)]

Hi Kishor,

On 02/26/2019 03:31 AM, Kharbas, Kishor wrote:
> Hi Yang,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Yang Zhang (Arm Technology China) [mailto:Yang.Zhang at arm.com]
>> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 12:44 AM
>> To: Kharbas, Kishor <kishor.kharbas at intel.com>; panama-
>> dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: RE: [vector] RFR : Removed subAll() and few javadoc changes
>>
>> Hi Kishor
>>
>> Currently I'm implementing subAll() for AArch64.
>> Could you please help to explain:
>> 1. What's the motivation of removing subAll() ?
>
> As part of API review, we found that subAll() does not have a clear semantic meaning. So it was decided to remove it.
>

OK, thanks! I assume the "API review" work is public, and then we will 
try not to miss any specific API change reviews. We all don't want any 
API to be biased to any particular architecture. :-)

>> 2. If subAll() should be removed,  why not remove the middle-end and the
>> x86 backend about subAll() ?
>
> Yes, the implementation of it should be removed too. I focused on api changes so did not remove the other parts.
>
I think it's OK to do that in a separate patch.

Thanks,
Ningsheng