Mercurial > hg > graal-compiler
changeset 9777:05b719a4ae09
expanded documentation for ForeignCallDescriptor
| author | Doug Simon <doug.simon@oracle.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 21 May 2013 12:39:40 +0200 |
| parents | f43313f3f759 |
| children | 5402504894fe |
| files | graal/com.oracle.graal.api.meta/src/com/oracle/graal/api/meta/ForeignCallDescriptor.java |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/graal/com.oracle.graal.api.meta/src/com/oracle/graal/api/meta/ForeignCallDescriptor.java Tue May 21 11:28:31 2013 +0200 +++ b/graal/com.oracle.graal.api.meta/src/com/oracle/graal/api/meta/ForeignCallDescriptor.java Tue May 21 12:39:40 2013 +0200 @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ * <li>The callee has different register saving semantics. For example, the callee may save all * registers (apart from some specified temporaries) in which case the register allocator doesn't * not need to spill all live registers around the call site.</li> + * <li>The call does not occur at an INVOKE* bytecode. Such a call could be transformed into a + * standard Java call if the foreign routine is a normal Java method and the runtime supports + * linking Java calls at arbitrary bytecodes.</li> * </ul> */ public class ForeignCallDescriptor {