On 19/08/2020 11:05, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > This is maybe not relevant, but I was surprised to find > src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/aarch64-asmtest.py, because a) it's python code, > and b) the name implies that it is a test, even though that it resides > in src. Is this really proper?
I have no idea whether it's really proper, but it allows us to check that instructions are encoded correctly by cross-checking with the system's assembler. There might well be a more hygienic way to do that, but I don't want to be without it. -- Andrew Haley (he/him) Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> https://keybase.io/andrewhaley EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
