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8029015: PPC64 (part 216): opto: trap based null and range checks Summary: On PPC64 use tdi instruction that does a compare and raises SIGTRAP for NULL and range checks. Reviewed-by: kvn
author goetz
date Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:16:21 -0800
parents da862781b584
children 1174c8abbdb6
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--- a/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	Tue Nov 26 18:38:19 2013 -0800
+++ b/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	Wed Nov 27 16:16:21 2013 -0800
@@ -2500,6 +2500,12 @@
   develop_pd(bool, ImplicitNullChecks,                                      \
           "Generate code for implicit null checks")                         \
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+  product_pd(bool, TrapBasedNullChecks,                                     \
+          "Generate code for null checks that uses a cmp and trap "         \
+          "instruction raising SIGTRAP.  This is only used if an access to" \
+          "null (+offset) will not raise a SIGSEGV, i.e.,"                  \
+          "ImplicitNullChecks don't work (PPC64).")                         \
+                                                                            \
   product(bool, PrintSafepointStatistics, false,                            \
           "Print statistics about safepoint synchronization")               \
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