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

[David Holmes]

Hi Vladimir,

On 22/05/2021 4:19 am, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
> 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
> 
> There are some suspicious failures on linux-x86 in pre-submit testing results:
> - compiler/c1/Test6855215.java
> - compiler/intrinsics/string/TestStringLatin1IndexOfChar.java
> 
> The tests explicitly specify `-XX:UseSSE=0`, so it may be related to the patch. Anybody interested in linux-x86 want to take a look? @shade @DamonFool

I'll take a look at the patch again because it is supposed to involve no 
functional changes.

Thanks,
David

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