On Tue, 4 Aug 2026 19:40:08 GMT, Paul Sandoz <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Hi All,
>> 
>> This is a follow-up to JDK-8370691 (Float16Vector). As noted by 
>> @xuemingshen-oracle and @PaulSandoz in this review comment on PR #28002 
>> (https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/28002#issuecomment-4568001440), the 
>> floating-point VECTOR_OP_OR fallback is a dead and semantically incorrect 
>> code path: it computes the bitwise OR on the widened float32 encoding (e.g. 
>> for Float16, Float16 → float32 → OR → Float16).
>> 
>> The public OR operator is VO_NOFP and is rejected on FP vectors, so this 
>> path was only reachable via the private OR_UNCHECKED op (which lacked 
>> VO_NOFP) and had no call sites. This change removes the dead code entirely. 
>> As per https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/28002#issuecomment-4568642676, if 
>> an FP OR is needed later, it can be re-added with proper intrinsic support.
>> 
>> Kindly review and share your feedback.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Jatin
>> 
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> Marked as reviewed by psandoz (Reviewer).

Thanks @PaulSandoz and @xuemingshen-oracle for review and approvals.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/32119#issuecomment-5187616696

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