RFR(S): 8017313: PPC64 (part 6): cppInterpreter: stack handling improvements

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Jun 25 05:52:31 PDT 2013


Hi Goetz,

This does not sit well with me. Convince me why we should saddle all 
builds with this only to support the cppInterpreter?

Thanks,
David

On 25/06/2013 10:44 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We precompute the stack limit for overflow checks and save this
> limit in the thread.  This simplifies the assembler coding checking
> the stack overflow. This change contains the necessary shared
> functionality. It can easily be ported to other platforms, too.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/webrevs/8017313-stack/
>
> Please review this change.
>
> Best regards,
>    Goetz.
>
> PS: I removed some parts of patch 0006 because I found a better
> platform-only solution.
>


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