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

[John Rose]

Sorry, it got lost in my inbox; thanks for the ping.

This looks very good to me; thanks for refactoring it that way.

And I think all of the node logic is now locally correct, regardless of what the other methods do.

— John

On Jul 16, 2018, at 5:21 AM, Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> On 13.07.2018 23:33, John Rose wrote:
>> I think your methods that potentially return a constant result should
>> be moved from Ideal to Value.
> 
> That's not possible because these methods may return a new node *or* a constant. We would need to
> split the checks up and move them to Ideal or Value. I did this by re-factoring the code once more:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~thartmann/8205044/webrev.04_inc/
> 
> All tests pass.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tobias