RFR: 8266950: Remove vestigial support for non-strict floating-point execution [v2]

David Holmes dholmes at openjdk.java.net
Fri May 21 02:22:37 UTC 2021


On Tue, 18 May 2021 04:26:00 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> As part of JEP 306, the vestiges of HotSpot support for non-strict floating-point execution can be removed. All methods implicitly have strictfp semantics so the explicit checks for is_strict() can be replaced by true and the code reformulated accordingly.
>> 
>> There are still some names that include "strict" that could potentially be renamed to remove it, but the fact we have to have strict fp semantics is still important on some platforms, so the names help reinforce that IMO.
>> 
>> Testing: tiers 1-3
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> David
>
> David Holmes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   lir_div_strictfp and lir_mul_strictfp

Can I please get re-reviews for this.

Thanks,
David

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3991


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