RFR(L): 8205044: [lworld] Interpreter and compiler support for acmp with value type operands

[Tobias Hartmann]

Hi Roland,

thanks for the review!

On 11.07.2018 15:09, Roland Westrelin wrote:
> In compile.cpp:
> 
> 4652     // Return constant false because one operand is a non-null value type
> 4653     return new CmpINode(phase->intcon(0), phase->intcon(1));
> 
> there must be a better way to return always false.

Yes, here's the incremental webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~thartmann/8205044/webrev.01_inc/

> How is the change in callGenerator.cpp related to acmp?

It's not related to acmp but I found the problem during testing with this patch. If we late inline a
method handle linkTo* call, the return value might be a ValueTypeNode although we are expecting an
oop. We need to allocate before we can replace the call.

Thanks,
Tobias