RFR 8183929: [MVT] Bad intrinsic for guard with test causes wrong behavior

[Vladimir Ivanov]

Looks good.

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

On 7/6/17 2:53 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> This is a fix for the bug discovered by Roland. There's a bad 
> conditional jump being generated by the selectAlternative intrinsic - 
> the patch I pushed yesterday did a 'ifne fallback' while 
> InvokeBytecodeGenerator does a 'ifeq fallback'. This mistake was 
> probably caused by a bug in the IBG comment next to the intrinsic ASM line.
> 
> I've also added the Point library I'm using for testing these days. 
> There's a very basic Point class with fields 'x' and 'y' with a 'norm' 
> method. I have tests for:
> 
> * creating a factory of Point
> * compute the norm of a Point
> * compute total norm of an array of Points
> 
> For each of these checks, the test has both the bytecode version (with 
> MethodHandleBuilder) and the pure MH version (through combinators). The 
> test checks that both results conform to what is expected (e.g. some 
> operation on the boxed class).
> 
> I've added a final test for the guardWithTest example which was indeed 
> failing before this fix.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/8183929/
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Maurizio
>