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

[Tobias Hartmann]

Hi John,

no problem, thanks a lot for the detailed review!

Best regards,
Tobias

On 19.07.2018 08:09, John Rose wrote:
> 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
>