diff src/cpu/ppc/vm/globals_ppc.hpp @ 14440:41b780b43b74

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 b0133e4187d3
children 67fa91961822
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--- a/src/cpu/ppc/vm/globals_ppc.hpp	Tue Nov 26 18:38:19 2013 -0800
+++ b/src/cpu/ppc/vm/globals_ppc.hpp	Wed Nov 27 16:16:21 2013 -0800
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 
 
 define_pd_global(bool, ImplicitNullChecks,    true);  // Generate code for implicit null checks.
+define_pd_global(bool, TrapBasedNullChecks,   true);
 define_pd_global(bool, UncommonNullCast,      true);  // Uncommon-trap NULLs passed to check cast.
 
 // Use large code-entry alignment.
@@ -100,12 +101,6 @@
   product(bool, TrapBasedNotEntrantChecks, true,                            \
           "Raise and handle SIGTRAP if calling not entrant or zombie"       \
           " method.")                                                       \
-  product(bool, TrapBasedNullChecks, true,                                  \
-          "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.")                       \
-  product(bool, TrapBasedRangeChecks, true,                                 \
-          "Raise and handle SIGTRAP if array out of bounds check fails.")   \
   product(bool, TraceTraps, false, "Trace all traps the signal handler"     \
           "handles.")                                                       \
                                                                             \