On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:28:45 GMT, Andrew Haley <a...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> We have to use this c-compiler option to build out the SVE ABIs (e.g. 
>> `svfloat32_t sinfx_u10sve(svfloat32_t input)`) in `libvmath.so`. Without 
>> this option, at build time, all the sve related featues like `arm_sve.h / 
>> __ARM_FEATURE_SVE` are missing, together with the sve symbols in 
>> `libvmath.so` we needed at runtime.  That means at runtime, hotspot cannot 
>> find out the sve symbols and the vector operations will fall back to the 
>> default java implementation.
>
> That's fine, but we must make sure that SVE is not used by the compiler in 
> any other places. If you've already built on non-SVE and tested the result on 
> both SVE and non-SVE, I'm happy.

You still need to separate out the SVE detection from the libsleef code, and 
provide a way to enable/disable it from the configure command line. It is not 
okay to auto-detect if features should be turned on or off by default, but it 
should always be possible to override.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16234#discussion_r1406291471

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