changeset 10414:72eafe3a1c34

Add comments in Compressed Oops
author Christos Kotselidis <christos.kotselidis@oracle.com>
date Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:30:22 +0200
parents 665e95c28965
children 1c77d0732233
files graal/com.oracle.graal.lir.amd64/src/com/oracle/graal/lir/amd64/AMD64Move.java
diffstat 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/graal/com.oracle.graal.lir.amd64/src/com/oracle/graal/lir/amd64/AMD64Move.java	Tue Jun 18 16:39:17 2013 +0200
+++ b/graal/com.oracle.graal.lir.amd64/src/com/oracle/graal/lir/amd64/AMD64Move.java	Tue Jun 18 19:30:22 2013 +0200
@@ -669,6 +669,8 @@
             // Otherwise the narrow heap base, which resides always in register 12, is subtracted
             // followed by right shift.
             masm.testq(scratchRegister, scratchRegister);
+            // If the stored reference is null, move the heap to scratch
+            // register and then calculate the compressed oop value.
             masm.cmovq(ConditionFlag.Equal, scratchRegister, AMD64.r12);
             masm.subq(scratchRegister, AMD64.r12);
             masm.shrq(scratchRegister, logMinObjAlignment);