On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:11:37 GMT, Paul Sandoz <psan...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I need to think a little more about this. The specification is not accurate > and likely requires a CSR. > > My initial thoughts are I would prefer the operation to retain reference to > the succinct definition using the logical right shift operator but we add > additional specification explaining the cases for `byte` and `short`, namely > that the result is widened to an `int` as if by `(a & ((1 << ESIZE) - 1))` > and the result narrowed. That's commonly (at least for the widening part) how > `>>>` is used with `byte` and `short`, and i think would be clearer to be > explicit in that regard. OK. To avoid confusing I would prefer using the description of `>>>` in the new vector operator, which would perform the same behavior as the scalar `>>>`. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8291
