Re: RFR: 8284992: Fix misleading Vector API doc for LSHR operator [v2]

[Jie Fu]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:41:37 GMT, Paul Sandoz <psan...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> After talking with John here's what we think is a better approach than what I 
> originally had in mind:
> 
> 1. In the class doc of `VectorOperators` add a definition for `EMASK` 
> occurring after the definition for `ESIZE`:
> 
> ```
>  * <li>{@code EMASK} &mdash; the bit mask of the operand type, where {@code 
> EMASK=(1<<ESIZE*8)-1} 
> ```
> 
> 2. Change `LSHR` to be:
> 
> ```
> /** Produce {@code (a&EMASK)>>>(n&(ESIZE*8-1))}.  Integral only. */
> ```
> 
> That more clearly gets across operating in the correct domain for sub-word 
> operand types, which was the original intention (e.g. the right shift value).

Good suggestion!
This makes sense to me.

Updated.
Thanks.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8291